Terra Vance posits that Autistic people experience empathy and emotions differently because the way autistic identity is structured differs from non-autistic people’s identity constructs.
David Gray-Hammond encourages people to step into and learn about autistic culture— how we relate to each other, how we adapt to our environment, art, language, sensory attunement, and more.
Matthew Rushin explores personal identity and the self in relation to time, the body, and the soul.
A poem on the labouring journey in the unsteady steps of an autistic person who cannot feel the ground beneath her feet.
This is the first article in a series in which autistic people break down and analyze the questions on the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ).
It also means that the past year has made it clear to me that what our movement needs is space where everyone, regardless of opinion, is welcome, in which the decisions of the community at large are represented (not just the decisions of autistic people who have leadership positions).
Literalism and the extreme amount of rules in religion can make the experience traumatic for autistic children. Parents need to think of their children’s neurotype in how the family approaches faith.
Self-advocacy in any marginalized community is the driving force for broader social change. In the autistic community, advocacy has unique challenges.
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.
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.
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