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.
Justice
wikipedia.org Article for Naoki Higashida
NeuroClastic
October 5, 2019
Editor’s Note: Anti-autistic Wikipedia editors have long been vandalizing and rewriting the narrative around autism and neurodiversity, with the most aggressive editing directed at non-speaking
The Difference Between the Autism Community and the Autistic Community
October 5, 2019
Often when autistic people, their family members, scientists who research autism, therapists, and anybody for whom autism is a part of their lives are talked
Autism and Pica
leonardoyeates
September 19, 2019
Autism is misunderstood, as is pica. It takes a long time for some of it to be diagnosed, in my case forty-eight years for autism.
Independence through Dependence: Why I Need a Communication Facilitator
Philip Reyes
June 26, 2019
A non-speaking autistic teen relates how he uses a communication facilitator to express himself in written word.
My Autist Manifesto
stinkyzen
June 24, 2019
“I have seen the shadow of doubt, and I went out and bought a floodlight with extra batteries.”
Autistic Uprising: a Neurodivergent Rebellion of Hearts and Minds
Life Guides for Autistics | NeuroGuides™
May 23, 2019
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.
Why Autistic Women Seem Two-Faced
Yo Samdy Sam
May 20, 2019
I consider myself a person of integrity, someone who always tries to do the right thing, sometimes taking agonising and soul-searching mental paths just to
The [Self] Diagnosis Debate: Part 2
Callie
May 12, 2019
On why self-diagnosis is valid and how to accept yourself as belonging to the autistic community (Part 2 of 2).
Mental Health Carnage: the Relentless Misunderstanding of Autistic Persons
Life Guides for Autistics | NeuroGuides™
May 7, 2019
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