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Autism

April and Accommodations: Give Me Space to Talk and Think!

Posted on April 15, 2022May 4, 2022 by Kris Guin

Giving me space to talk and think will make my life easier as an Autistic person, because it means I will be able to be a part of a conversation with someone or with a group of people.

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Autism

April and Accommodations: Our Sensory Needs Are Real!

Posted on April 14, 2022May 4, 2022 by Sally J. Pla

I need regular doses of solitude to recover from sensory onslaught. This doesn’t mean I am anti-social. I’m deeply social, but I do need a fair amount of downtime. 

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AAC

April and Accommodations: Tell me what to expect in advance!

Posted on April 9, 2022May 6, 2022 by endever* corbin

A small switch in behavior other people can make, to ease the author’s life as an autistic person, is to “Tell me what to expect in advance! Especially for unfamiliar events… and in more detail than you expect I’ll need.”

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Why Is Health Care So Inaccessible to Autistic People?

Posted on April 5, 2022May 17, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

We talk with Dr. Mary Doherty and Dr. Sebastian Shaw of Autistic Doctors International about how undetected barriers to health care for autistic people can lead to delayed care, serious complications, and sometimes even fatalities.

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Accessibility

April and Accommodations: Accessible Health Care — Not By Phone!

Posted on April 1, 2022April 4, 2022 by Anne Borden King

Something that would make my life easier would be accessible virtual health care; in other
words, NOT by phone.

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Autism

The Autistic Archive: New Project Documents 30 Years of Our Community’s History

Posted on March 17, 2022March 27, 2022 by Anne Borden

Ira Eidle is the curator of the of Autistic Archive, an online resource that responds to “a need for better preservation of information related to the Autistic Community and Neurodiversity Movement’s history.”

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AAC

Believing in Nonspeakers and the Right to Communicate: An Interview With Dr. Vikram Jaswal

Posted on March 14, 2022May 7, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Those who would deny people access to their most effective method of communication because of concerns about the potential for false accusations should, as Rua Williams recently wrote, “ask [themselves] why a false accusation is more harmful than the ability to accuse.”

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AAC

An Ode to Our Nonspeaking Community Members

Posted on March 4, 2022April 1, 2022 by Neurodiversity News

If you don’t want people exposing your private moments online, then don’t do it to [autistic people]. Don’t have a double standard. Treat them in the way that you would want to be treated. Think of it that way. 

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Autism

The Vileness of Autism As Clickbait

Posted on February 8, 2022April 4, 2022 by M. Kelter

At a time when there remains widespread confusion about autism and developmental disability, it is imperative that responsible platforms make a more serious effort to educate the public and to more regularly share valid, up-to-date information.

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Accessibility

Please Stop Playing “Gotcha” With Autistic Accommodations

Posted on January 18, 2022May 10, 2022 by Anne Corwin

Pro tip: it’s fine to want to understand your autistic friends’ sensory and accommodations issues, etc., but please don’t frame it as a “Gotcha.”

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