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
…symbols they use, what kinds of events they have, and the people in charge, I notice some common trends. I tend to see puzzle pieces everywhere, which autistic people mostly…
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.”
…of society. From what autistic persons have clearly expressed to me– they are finished, done with being used to Light it Up Blue, puzzle pieces, all of it. Finis. Left…
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).
…and immediate interventions to get ahead of the autism before it’s too late. Enter ABA therapy, Autism Speaks, and puzzle iconography. Parents usually start the therapy and eventually find themselves…
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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