Don’t think of inclusion as helping us get by in the structures built by and for ‘not us,’ rather think of how you can help us change the structure so that it is ours as much as it is yours.
Osime Brown is in prison for being autistic while Black.
The UK today is a land of austerity steeped in racism. Osime Brown is feeling the weight of centuries of violent oppression.
The simple truth is that when it comes to politics most neurotypical people would prefer to be told comfortable lies rather than uncomfortable truths; and politics is largely the telling of comfortable lies.
Daniel Maskit explores the NHS response– or lack thereof– to the COVID19 pandemic and how it affects autistic people.
I think that everyone who is autistic has wanted at times to get a group of neurotypical people to listen while you explain to them what being autistic is really like. From that perspective, being able to give a TedX talk was a bit of a fantasy come to life.
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