No one is talking about autism and addiction, so recovering addict and autistic self-advocate David Gray-Hammond is leading the charge and starting the conversation.
Autistic Barbie asks what the cost is of filming autistic children’s meltdowns and encourages parents to value their children’s privacy and emotional health.
For the Bracken family, the agencies and institutions in place to protect and help them instead terrorized them.
The bias towards ABA is so strong that it feels insurmountable to convince anyone, through logic, reason, and personal experiences, of the harms caused by regimented behaviorism.
Autism Speaks, help clean up your mess! The time is now to demand that Autism Speaks show repentance and pay reparations for the outbreaks and deaths from formerly-eradicated diseases such as measles, pertussis, mumps, and polio.
Comedian, autistic advocate, photographer, and film maker Sophie Lavender gives a Ted Talk about her experience with child abuse and how autism helped her to survive and maintain her sense of individuality– and her sense of humor.
What makes Greta Thunberg so different from most autistic people has nothing to do with Greta but is related to how she is received by non-autistic people.
Greta’s fearlessness is inspiring. So many of us were conditioned to be silent. Our opinions were offensive, challenging, “vain.” Our questions made people uncomfortable with themselves, and they lashed out at us.
Three nonspeaking autistic students advocate for communication choice rights and full participation in their own IEP and inclusion plans.
The lessons that autistic children learn on the playground are often different from the ones their peers pick up.