Uncommon Sense: An Autistic Journey, a memoir by autistic advocate Adam Mardero, is a memoir about Mardero’s life and journey from trying to mask and reject his diagnosis to learning to live authentically with true self-acceptance.
Behaviorism is predicated on a philosophy that ignores neurology and fails to acknowledge the consequence of working against biological needs. It fosters learned helplessness.
Wendy Katz has an inspiring, empowering, beautiful resolution mighty enough to last for a decade of work and revolutionary in its simplicity.
When Greta Thunberg began to take the stage as an autistic climate change activist, the world took notice. My reaction was one of powerful pride, not just as an autistic adult, but as a former autistic girl. Here was an articulate, passionate, brilliant girl unfocused on fame and fashion, who wasn’t going to let the weight of the NT world crush her or keep her from speaking out!
The circumstances which lead children into the hands of social services are devastating, but the reality of what happens once they’re accepted into care is often worse–especially for autistic kids.
When is something scientific, and when is it time to call shenanigans? Wendy Katz explores ROGD as it makes its rounds through the autistic community.
Before I turned 17 and started the gradual descent into becoming increasingly-suicidal, I suffered with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that culminated in a breakdown.
Love is a deeply personal experience, the joining of two individual worlds into a meaningful partnership, and it can be a magical thing. When two
What if I told you that there was a far off land where #actuallyautistic people were forced to wear electrodes? Where painful electric shocks were
A look at the disturbingly-short life span for autistics and some of the factors which may be behind the bleak numbers.
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