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
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 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.
A non-speaking autistic teen relates how he uses a communication facilitator to express himself in written word.
“I have seen the shadow of doubt, and I went out and bought a floodlight with extra batteries.”
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.
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
On why self-diagnosis is valid and how to accept yourself as belonging to the autistic community (Part 2 of 2).
An exploration of the source of the division between neurodiversity advocates and the rest of the world and a proposal for common ground.
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
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