Nonspeaking teen activist Trevor Byrd tackles the nuance of trying to expect autistic people to trivialize their emotional life with false binaries and oversimplified explanations.
Anantha Krishnamurthy with another powerful poem that stands as a challenge to all that is wild and free within the soul of readers.
Trevor Byrd, teen Nonspeaker, writes about the benefits of therapy for Nonspeakers whose emotional needs are often overlooked in the push for interventions.
Trevor Byrd, teen advocate and Autistic Nonspeaker, reflects on feelings of isolation, self-blame, and dysregulation and the resolve to know and accept himself for who he is outside of the world’s projections.
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Teen nonspeaker Anantha Krishnamurthy compares the treatment of progressive science during the Renaissance era to modern autism science— and it hits hard.
“People fail disabled folk when they refuse to accept all ways of being human. In a more perfect world agency would be respected, disability rights honored, and brave hearts exalted. I and others have wisdom for a deprived and hostile world. Skilled allies wanted.”
Nick Barry, a young nonspeaking advocate, writes about how the privacy and autonomy of nonspeakers is often violated by those around them, how it feels, and how to do better.
“This poem is about a girl in a song and another girl who lives on a planet of perpetual music. To see my life you must also let the music take you.”
Nonspeaking advocate and writer Ben Breaux explores the Truth about Love in its purest form.
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