Ash Banks provides readers with a nuanced and culturally-responsive guide to identifying intentionally predatory behavior, setting boundaries, and protecting oneself.
Relationships between Autistic people are often more intense than relationships between culturally well adjusted neuronormative people. Healthy Autistic relationships include intensive collaboration on shared interests, overlapping areas of deep domain expertise, and joint exploration of unfamiliar terrain. The intensity of Autistic relationships is based on our ability to hyperfocus and our unbounded curiosity and desire to learn.
The neurodiversity movement is a human rights movement. No one and no organisation can genuinely claim to be supportive of the neurodiversity paradigm without committing to the political goals of the neurodiversity movement. There are no short cuts.
The cult of busyness undermines attempts at creating a shared understanding at a very basic level. In a hyper-competitive world the unexpected non-compliant Autistic behaviour is often misunderstood.
Do you want real change? Within human societies Autistic people tend to be the amongst the first who point out toxic competitive behaviours. We live in a world where the cultural immune system of human society, i.e. Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people are being systematically weakened, marginalised, and disabled.
Being forced to mask as a matter of existence pushes people into codependency and rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and causes them a lifetime of trauma.
On Monday, July 25th at 1 pm Eastern Time, the NeuroClastic team goes live with a former JRC Center worker for an interview. Join us!
Details on vigil commemorating the life of Max Benson, and a call for justice in his death by restraint.
Jeff Newman, autistic social worker and abuse investigator, has questions for executives at Judge Rotenberg Center regarding the use of electroshock punishments used for behavior modification of disabled people.
The Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts, threatened NeuroClastic with legal action. View the letter and our response here.
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