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.
Editor’s note: Osime Brown is a 21-year-old autistic Black man who was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to stop a street robbery.
It isn’t always mental illness or being different that drives someone to suicide. As Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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