Poetry: AuDHD
Emmanuel
November 9, 2022
Emmanuel Abua considers the duality and sometimes polarizing reality of being both autistic and ADHD.
People of Color
Hypermobility Pain Hacks
Mrinal Gokhale
October 31, 2022
Many autistic people suffer with chronic joint pain due to co-occurring conditions. Here’s how one autistic woman found some relief.
Poetry: The Road.
Anantha Krishnamurthy
October 19, 2022
Anantha Krishnamurthy with another powerful poem that stands as a challenge to all that is wild and free within the soul of readers.
“Subnormal”: How a British Postwar Education Scandal Gives a Human Context for ‘Neurodivergence while Black’
Tré Ventour-Griffiths
September 26, 2022
In this article, public historian and artist-academic Tré Ventour considers a 1970s UK school scandal as an entry point into a nuanced conversation on neurodivergence while Black. Part-history, part-sociological inquiry. This is a must-read!
LONG-READ – Autistic While Black in the UK: Masking, Codeswitching, and Other (Non)fictions
Tré Ventour-Griffiths
April 28, 2022
Academic journalist Tré Ventour chronicles the experience of masking and code switching through the framework of intersectionality. This must-read
perspective needs to become a living staple of collective consciousness.
The Performance of April and Autism Awareness Month
Emmanuel
April 27, 2022
April is essentially a cash grab. April is a soapbox for well-meaning organizations and corporations to bank on us. We’re the inspiration porn, the example to strive for, the burden to be eased that’s big money to them.
The Big Gag: Autism science and autistic heresy
Anantha Krishnamurthy
April 18, 2022
Teen nonspeaker Anantha Krishnamurthy compares the treatment of progressive science during the Renaissance era to modern autism science— and it hits hard.
April Is…
AdamAuron Lodestone
April 1, 2022
April is for affirmation, inclusion, empowerment, and accomodation! Center Autistic voices. Unlearn ableist concepts. Actively dismantle ableist and neurobigoted structures and systems. Seek out advocates,
Note to your younger self: Invisible magic
Aishah Nyeta
March 27, 2022
“Little Black Autistic Girl, what will the world do with you? Will they forget you? Will you go down in history as an overlooked and unsung hero that deserved more recognition while they were around?”
Dear Fellow Black Autistic, Your Autistic Experience Looks Different,
speer32
February 28, 2022
“From picking your afro because the motion is soothing, to twerking and playing with your braids, to repeating that one itch-scratching line in the rap song you love over and over again… It’s the way that you put on lipgloss even though you just put it on three minutes ago because the motion is soothing.”
