On April 24, 2019, SpectrumNews.org aired an article that garnered a lot of scrutiny. Since that date, it has remained pinned to the front page of the website like a proverbial line drawn in the sand…
The chilled air in the place seemed filled with unease. Clean, sterile, with “handlers” at every carefully-monitored corner of the place. Doors locking in neat
The month of April is now over, and with it an overstuffed ensemble of competing colors, puzzle pieces, symbols, fundraisers for bloated organizations supposedly serving
#Puppetgate went viral on social media when a UK theatre announced a play with an autistic puppet who looked like the devil’s worst nightmares. On the script…
Autism Science is a strange little corner of research and medicine. It seems to attract a host of researchers who must have been at the
A look at the debate over first-person language and identity-first language.
If you’ve spent any time wondering if you might be autistic, the first thing you probably did was examine the diagnostic criteria from the APA’s
What if I told you that there was a far off land where #actuallyautistic people were forced to wear electrodes? Where painful electric shocks were
The history of humanity is orthodoxy fighting advancement. And losing. Every time. Because the fact is, without innovative thinkers, without the people who see the
I remember the acrid smell of something broken. Salty, sour, it permeated the Gulf Coast air like the scent of some fading electrical fire or