Using Marx’s theory of alienation of disenfranchised people, Brunel explores how autistics are alienated and their value assessed as financial commodities.
When your natural autistic instincts lead you somewhere else than the majority’s instincts lead them, you learn to not trust anything– even yourself.
I am a functional 8. You know the pain scale? I am the little face with the wrinkled up, inward-facing eyebrows and the frown with
Terra Vance writes about her experience as a multiply neurodivergent person being autistic, dyslexic, synesthetic with OCD and sensory processing disorder.
What a joy it is was to make art. It used to be my whole world, and I devoted my life to it. Something strange
Autism is such a broad and new subject. It wears many faces, expressions, emotions, hindrances, and gifts. There are types not acknowledged formally and people
If you haven’t already, click here to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series. I look back at all of this
Trigger warning: this one is dark Content warning: bad poetry Fifteen years ago, I wrote a poem. This was fifteen years before I had a
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