Safe and Inclusive Advocacy in the Autistic Community: Unique Minds and Challenges
Self-advocacy in any marginalized community is the driving force for broader social change. In the autistic community, advocacy has unique challenges.
Self-advocacy in any marginalized community is the driving force for broader social change. In the autistic community, advocacy has unique challenges.
The Autistic English Dictionary (AED) is the principal dictionary of the English language for autistic people. In order to be comprehensible to autistic people, the English language needs to be updated with explicit definitions of the continuously shifting unspoken semantics that neurotypical speakers attach to specific words and phrases.
When all of her self-regulation routines failed to be enough to help her process the grief and anxiety of the covid pandemic, one woman found synesthetic release through movement.
“Please help us. We are running out of everything. Please, please, please help.”
Two weeks later, sie was dead.
A review of the Netflix documentary, Crip Camp, about the disability rights movement, written from the perspective of an autistic person.
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.
Beginning when he was young, and throughout is life, John was told that he needed to change. This forced him to resent and feel ashamed of being autistic. Here’s how he found the soil to grow in the light of acceptance.
A minister expresses their relationship with working with Neurodivergent people and states that they have been sold a lie that says people have to hide who they are to be loved by the Divine.
Indelibly autistic is a state of being, a joyous intensity of grace. It is a sensory wonderland in many ways. A universal exploratory foray into the patterns that make our existence so spectacularly cool.
It’s finally here, and you can download Understanding the Autistic Mind, Volume 1 in English or Spanish, full versions or plain text versions for screen readers.
Self-advocacy in any marginalized community is the driving force for broader social change. In the autistic community, advocacy has unique challenges.
The Autistic English Dictionary (AED) is the principal dictionary of the English language for autistic people. In order to be comprehensible to autistic people, the English language needs to be updated with explicit definitions of the continuously shifting unspoken semantics that neurotypical speakers attach to specific words and phrases.
When all of her self-regulation routines failed to be enough to help her process the grief and anxiety of the covid pandemic, one woman found synesthetic release through movement.
“Please help us. We are running out of everything. Please, please, please help.”
Two weeks later, sie was dead.
A review of the Netflix documentary, Crip Camp, about the disability rights movement, written from the perspective of an autistic person.
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.
Beginning when he was young, and throughout is life, John was told that he needed to change. This forced him to resent and feel ashamed of being autistic. Here’s how he found the soil to grow in the light of acceptance.
A minister expresses their relationship with working with Neurodivergent people and states that they have been sold a lie that says people have to hide who they are to be loved by the Divine.
Indelibly autistic is a state of being, a joyous intensity of grace. It is a sensory wonderland in many ways. A universal exploratory foray into the patterns that make our existence so spectacularly cool.
It’s finally here, and you can download Understanding the Autistic Mind, Volume 1 in English or Spanish, full versions or plain text versions for screen readers.
Self-advocacy in any marginalized community is the driving force for broader social change. In the autistic community, advocacy has unique challenges.
The Autistic English Dictionary (AED) is the principal dictionary of the English language for autistic people. In order to be comprehensible to autistic people, the English language needs to be updated with explicit definitions of the continuously shifting unspoken semantics that neurotypical speakers attach to specific words and phrases.
When all of her self-regulation routines failed to be enough to help her process the grief and anxiety of the covid pandemic, one woman found synesthetic release through movement.
“Please help us. We are running out of everything. Please, please, please help.”
Two weeks later, sie was dead.
A review of the Netflix documentary, Crip Camp, about the disability rights movement, written from the perspective of an autistic person.
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.
Beginning when he was young, and throughout is life, John was told that he needed to change. This forced him to resent and feel ashamed of being autistic. Here’s how he found the soil to grow in the light of acceptance.
A minister expresses their relationship with working with Neurodivergent people and states that they have been sold a lie that says people have to hide who they are to be loved by the Divine.
Indelibly autistic is a state of being, a joyous intensity of grace. It is a sensory wonderland in many ways. A universal exploratory foray into the patterns that make our existence so spectacularly cool.
It’s finally here, and you can download Understanding the Autistic Mind, Volume 1 in English or Spanish, full versions or plain text versions for screen readers.
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