The Harmful Lessons We Teach Autistic Kids
Jude Clee
November 24, 2019
The lessons that autistic children learn on the playground are often different from the ones their peers pick up.
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Autism and Sexual Vulnerability-One Woman’s Story
sarahhdbristol
November 22, 2019
Autistic people are at a high risk of being assaulted by sexual predators. This is one woman’s story and the factors that positioned her to be so vulnerable.
Autistic in the Neurotypical Gauntlet
jbcurtin
November 18, 2019
I made my mistakes fully aware there would be a response, and I hoped that response would tell me exactly what was wrong with my communication. It wasn’t you who diagnosed me, it was me who came to you for help without my knowing how to ask you for help.
Autism and Gender
Gee Abraham
November 15, 2019
Grasping the unique relationship between autistic people and their genders is an essential component of understanding the autistic experience.
Poetry: How Do You Know?
vormaen
November 8, 2019
Who can change the tesseract that engulfs us towards doom? Who has all the answers, who can say what life means? Worst of all, how do you know?
Raising Autistics: Children are people, not property
pastthequasar
November 7, 2019
Children are people, not property.
The Ramblings of a Misunderstood Mind, Part 1
vormaen
October 13, 2019
I don’t know why my mind races. As I sit here, uncomfortable because my stomach is in knots, and my thoughts won’t shut down. All
Poetry: I can’t believe
insideamirrormaze
October 11, 2019
The knowledge of being autistic and engaging with the autistic community has restored my faith in my intuition. This poem describes the dialogue I wish to have with those who advise me against my intuition.
A communal definition of Autistic ways of being
Jorn Bettin
October 11, 2019
Jorn Bettin, in collaboration with the autistic community, has come up with a communal definition of autism. We ask that you use the comment section below to let us know what ideas you have to improve this definition.
Autistic Collaboration for Life
Jorn Bettin
October 8, 2019
Jorn Bettin maps out the differences between the autistic community and broader society’s social hierarchies.