Louis Stay wanted help autistic children when he took a job as an RBT. The clinic was advertised as the modern “good ABA” that avoided the harmful practices associated with ABA’s history.
…Founder of Divergify, NeuroClastic community survey Demonstrably, as is evident from our survey, justifying what the United Nations has deemed torture on disabled people causes harm to society. It undermines…
Asiatu Lawoyin, at age 42, experienced their first PTSD flashback from childhood sexual abuse. Asiatu unpacks the space between the trauma and the flashback through the lens of being Black and autistic.
Proponents of the Judge Rotenberg Center’s use of electroshock as punishment on disabled children and adults claim that nothing else works. What about access to appropriate communication?
In our society the fiction of homo economicus manifests itself in the beliefs associated with the language of behaviourism, which exists in multiple dialects, and which has come to permeate and pollute many disciplines in the social sciences
In this fictional analogy, a golden retriever tries to meet the needs of his his jealous and authoritarian master. The symbolism is yours to interpret.
One autistic woman thought she’d met her soulmate when she started dating her partner. She didn’t see the warning signs until it was too late.
Lulu Is a Rhinoceros is a children’s picture book about a Rhinoceros who looks like a bulldog. It’s a mighty and subversive story about living authentically in a culture that values assimilation.
Alex Sprague is an adult now being forced to recall painful memories of childhood behavior-based therapy that left them with trauma.
One woman suffered profound physical, sexual, and psychological abuse before she was diagnosed as Autistic.
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