Autism Speaks, help clean up your mess! The time is now to demand that Autism Speaks show repentance and pay reparations for the outbreaks and deaths from formerly-eradicated diseases such as measles, pertussis, mumps, and polio.
I’m a punk. I’m a rebel. I think one of the most badass things you can do is fight the system, and the biggest system there is is the culture of division and the human nature of defensiveness.
Jorn Bettin, in collaboration with the autistic community, has come up with a communal definition of autism. We ask that you use the comment section below to let us know what ideas you have to improve this definition.
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
As an adult female with autism who runs a podcast and media outlet, I am what our media would present as a depressingly-rare convergence of traits.
Being diagnosed with autism when the symptoms are not obvious enough is difficult, especially for people of color.
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 sometimes forget how many allies, advocates, and friends we have when I have to confront hate on a daily basis. Hate has become an
What if I told you that there was a far off land where #actuallyautistic people were forced to wear electrodes? Where painful electric shocks were
One of the most hotly-contended points of division between the adult autistic community and the neurotypical parents of autistic children: explained.
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