The Double Standard: On Growing Up Autistic
2020-04-06
Conversion therapy, aspie supremacy, and diagnosis denial before age ten, and then came the shame and masking. Eventually, there was enlightenment, acceptance, activism, and pride.
5 Covid-19 Safety Tips For Disabled People Fearing Genocide
2020-04-03
It's a disconcerting fact for disabled people staring down the barrel of rationing of health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some tips for demanding your healthcare rights.
Our Golden Moment! Five ways to support the autistic community in April
2020-04-01
So it’s the first of April and right now the last thing on people’s minds is autism awareness. But that really needs to change, since now during this pandemic we need people to be aware of the needs of disabled
Tips for Accesibility in Public Events
2020-03-30
Neura offers practical, actionable tips for making your events and spaces more accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities.
#CoronaVirus: All the Dead are Victims of Ableism
2020-03-29
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has put all of us in a place where we have to face the truth of ableism and placing humanity in a hierarchy.
So, you want to Autism Level UP!? …Game on!
2020-03-26
We often advocate for people to move beyond awareness to acceptance, but Dr. Amy Laurent and Dr. JÂcqûelyn Fede teach you how to go further and Autism Level UP!
Call-Out Culture and Learned Helplessness
2020-03-25
It is those who seize power and control via their continued privileges who often become the spokespeople of a given minority group. Call-out culture needs to be called out because it has become a tool of oppressors.
During the Covid Crisis, Look for the Helpers
2020-03-22
Regardless of your political alignment, there is the truth that no human is an island: We need one another. We need the skills, thoughts, labor, and resources of other people to survive. It is the backbone of what makes us human.
Not Like Those Children: What that really means to an autistic person
2020-03-22
Although I’m relatively new to neurodiversity activism, having only started a few months ago, one thing is clear in my research: high-support needs (mostly nonspeaking) autistic individuals are typically underrepresented, marginalized, and dehumanized in the media, whether that be the news
Covid19: Why I believe we should all be anarchists and communalists
2020-03-22
I will speak in terms of beliefs, because at the core there is a point where the choice of our political system becomes a matter of philosophy rather than fact.
I believe that hierarchies are inherently destructive. Human beings should not organise