Trevor Byrd, teen advocate and Autistic Nonspeaker, reflects on feelings of isolation, self-blame, and dysregulation and the resolve to know and accept himself for who he is outside of the world’s projections.
On Monday, July 25th at 1 pm Eastern Time, the NeuroClastic team goes live with a former JRC Center worker for an interview. Join us!
After killing a young autistic man with a deadly restraint, a bystander films employees from the same school casually performing brutal restraints on a fourth grade girl as she screams in terror.
Neurodivergent Illinois state Rep. Jonathan Carroll introduced HB 0219 to ban restraint and seclusion in Illinois schools, but some schools are fighting for the torture of school children.
An open letter from Stacia Langley, Max Benson’s mom, to Sia about removing the restraint scene from her movie, Music.
Matthew Rushin received a pardon, but justice was not served. He’s still in prison and has COVID, and is scared and alone. He should be released to get the care he needs.
With a chorus of “I can’t breathe” haunting the nation, the time to ban dangerous prone restraints that cause injury, trauma, and death is now. Call on Illinois State Superintendent Carmen Ayala to act now.
George Floyd was not the problem. Breonna Taylor was not the problem. Huxley Shauffer was not the problem. Alejandro Ripley was not the problem. Cornelius Frederick was not the problem. You are the problem.
One man sheds light on a terrifying reality for many autistics– that families commit their autistic children to psychiatric hospitals where they are abused, mistreated, restrained, and secluded.
Mike Wise recalls his time as an autistic student placed in seclusion as a punishment for being impulsive or not getting his work done.
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