Recommended reading for autistics, but read critically. The story of Jacob Hunt, an 18-year-old autistic man from Townsend, VT accused of murder.
The media has an obligation to uphold objectivity, fairness, and ethical reporting– but the coverage of autistic and other disabled folk is rife with inspiration porn.
Using Marx’s theory of alienation of disenfranchised people, Brunel explores how autistics are alienated and their value assessed as financial commodities.
Autistic people are often differently-capable, with areas of remarkable skill and troughs of profound weaknesses– an exploration of this phenomenon.
“I have seen the shadow of doubt, and I went out and bought a floodlight with extra batteries.”
The five months since I was “officially” diagnosed with autism have been a whirlwind of discovery, namely finding other autistic women like me, and finding
The Neurodiversity Movement is a mutiny, and it’s unapologetic, alive, and kinetic. No more can the autism-as-wretched-waif paradigm survive the cultural landscape of Neurodiversity.
Don’t Tell Me Life’s too hard I’ve come this far To go nowhere Why the blank stare? Don’t tell me you’ve been there. I don’t
The bitter irony of his dressing in black was not lost on me. He smiled a hopeful smile, before walking into the “job interview practice”
On why self-diagnosis is valid and how to accept yourself as belonging to the autistic community (Part 2 of 2).
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