“Very clearly, as all police departments engaging in similar paltry PR pandering will learn, Autistics speak for ourselves. The resounding message is that we are not complicit with your attempts to distract from your racism by putting your ableism on display.”
Understanding Autistics asked 50 autistic kids what life is like for them, then he made a rap out of their responses. Here it is.
How did autistic and other neurodivergent kids survive the Dark Ages before IEPs, 504 plans, targeted therapy, noise-canceling headphones?
Here’s some brutal autistic truth-telling for you…
Beautiful, vibrant, living Autistic poetry and song lyrics without the word “autism.” Songs without a singer. Rhyme with Reason.
Anxious people don’t need to be thrown into the metaphorical lion’s den to be cured of their anxiety. What we do need is to be listened to, respected, cared for and about…
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
For its Power, Magic, & Transcendence Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
When DuplexStructure heard the song “Otherside” in 2000, it resonated with her. It took her twenty years of listening to the song to know why.
Growing up, I was acutely aware that I did not belong. The proverbial elephant in the room, my identity was carved out of all the
I have written previously about how grateful I was for having music in my life (1). I feel that it saved my life in several
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