Fandom and character nominations for this year’s autistic exchange are now open! Nominations will close 24 June at 11:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time. , Make nominations here.
Note: Making nominations will not sign you up for the exchange! The purpose of nominations is to gather a working list of fandoms and characters that people are interested in reading or writing as autistic. This will make it easier to match writers and recipients! Sign ups will open June 26th.
What is the Autistic Exchange?
The Autistic Exchange is a fanfiction gift exchange by autistic people, for autistic people. Our aim is to encourage autistic people to write stories featuring their favourite canonically autistic or headcanoned autistic characters, and to receive a story featuring a desired autistic character in return!
We’d like to see more stories featuring autistic people on AO3. We’d also like to encourage more diverse representations of autism and autistic people. We’d love to see autistic people of colour, autistic people with additional disabilities, autistic women, queer autistic people, trans and non-binary autistic people, and more!
You will need an AO3 account to nominate and participate in The Autistic Exchange. If you do not have an account, you will need to request an invitation from AO3. Alternatively, we have a limited number of invitation codes we can offer interested participants.
You may nominate up to four fandoms, and five characters per fandom. If you have less than four fandoms, or less than five characters for a fandom you are nominating, that’s ok! Just leave those extra places blank. :)
When nominating characters, please keep in mind the following:
You should be planning to request or offer to write at least one character from each fandom you nominate as autistic when you sign-up. However, nominating more than one autistic character is highly encouraged! These characters may be canonically autistic, you may headcanon them as autistic, or you may simply be interested in reading or writing an interpretation of the character as autistic. :)
You may nominate characters who you perceive as allistic, if you would like to request or offer them interacting with your autistic character(s). During sign ups, you may make note in your “Dear Author” letter that you are interested in how this/these allistic character(s) interact with your autistic character(s). However, be aware that your author may write any, or even all, of the characters in your request as autistic. The more autistic characters, the merrier! That is the point of this exchange, after all! :)
At this time, we are not accepting RPF nominations. Virtually all other fandoms, big or small, and characters are open to nominations, however.
Ready to make some nominations? Awesome! Nominate here!
Challenge profile on A03, including rules and FAQ.
Got some questions? No problem! Feel free to ask us quetions! We are also interested in any suggestions you would like to make–the process for running a fic exchange is new to us, and we are liable to make mistakes!Â
15 June-June 24: Nominations
26 June: Sign-ups open at midnight, EST!
July 7: Sign-ups close (at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time)
10-12 July: Assignments go out
13 September: Stories due by midnight
26 September: Stories revealed (provided all participants have received a story by this time)
30 September: Authors revealed
If you are uninterested, or unable, to participate, a signal boost would be greatly appreciated! Additionally, we are interested in collecting a list of potential pinch hitters! To be added to the pinch hit list, please e-mail autisticexchange @ gmail . com (remove the spaces) with your AO3 username and a note that you’re interested in receiving pinch hit requests!
Thanks, and happy nominating!
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