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Advocacy

Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism’s MAGA Movement

Posted on November 16, 2022July 21, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

If you’re the parent of autistic child or adult, and you are also horrified by the blatant misinformation being peddled and swallowed by MAGA truthers, you should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parents and organizations.

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Ask an Epidemiologist: Dr. Rene Najera on Vaccines, Masks, And Trusted COVID Info Sources

Posted on April 11, 2022May 5, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

We talked with epidemiologist Dr. Rene Najera about the state of COVID vaccines, masks, and trusted sources for pandemic information—as well as why he doesn’t like to use the word “booster.”

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Action Alert: Help Protect Californians With Developmental Disabilities!

Posted on March 5, 2022August 31, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This means that people cannot conserve disabled people as easily as they used to. It does NOT mean that people with disabilities will be barred from getting the supports they need and deserve.

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Inviting a Disabled Person to Prom Is Not Heroism

Posted on March 4, 2016April 22, 2022 by Jamie Pacton

Disabled people do not exist to make non-disabled people feel like heroes.

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Why Did Amy Lutz Attack the Neurodiversity Movement?

Posted on January 21, 2013June 27, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Why did Amy Lutz publicly attack disabled people for the crime of appearing less disabled than her own child? Especially the very advocates who are fighting to ensure a better future for all autistic people—including her son?

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Black autistic children are still being diagnosed later than average, and often not until after multiple evaluations.

(Note: this article endorses ABA therapy. We do not support ABA, but ABA is also not the main point here.)

#AutisticWhileBlack #autism

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isolinearchip_ Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip_ ·
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Like, sometimes I feel like I could hulk out when I'm really really happy and it's frankly uncomfortable. I dunno, maybe this is a common experience that most other people are better at managing, meanwhile I'm stuck at "ahhh feeling too big! Make big feeling go away!"

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isolinearchip_ Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip_ ·
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That scene in PUNCH DRUNK LOVE when they're talking about how much they love each other and it comes out as how much they want to rip the other person apart is like yeah that's it actually. Not literally of course, but that intensity of emotion and the weirdness of *feeling* it

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isolinearchip_ Claire 🐝 @isolinearchip_ ·
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Was just thinking about this yesterday. Intense positive and negative emotions feel physically, bodily the same to me. Love, anger, despair are all a white-hot restlessness that feels like I'm caught tangled in my skin, with an intellectual layer of "this is pos/neg/null" on top

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