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We Need to Talk About Aspie Supremacists

Posted on February 28, 2023March 1, 2023 by Fergus Murray

Over-valuing certain abilities means looking down on people who don’t share them. Aspie supremacy is the ideology that follows from taking this to an extreme: ‘aspies’ have extraordinary powers which not only make their existence worthwhile, but make them better than other people.

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Autism in Fiction: Reviewing A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll

Posted on February 23, 2023February 26, 2023 by Meg Eden Kuyatt

Reading A Kind of Spark, I felt a part of myself represented and explained on the page that I’d never seen anywhere else before. I feel so much for Addie, the 12-year-old autistic main character: How she puts herself in the historical stories of witches, and how the injustice of their history upsets her, while others seem detached.

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Autism

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

Posted on March 17, 2022August 3, 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, 2022June 29, 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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Autism

Circular Reasoning and The Question of “Profound” Quadrilaterality

Posted on December 16, 2021March 13, 2023 by Bev Harp

Disabled people deserve access to the supports they need, whether due to autism or to co-occurring conditions. Just as squares are not more quadrilateral than trapezoids—they are all four-sided shapes–there is no such thing as “profound autism.”

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Autism

UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit 2021: Debate on the Neurodiversity Movement, with Shannon Rosa and Matthew Belmonte

Posted on December 1, 2021May 23, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Our senior editor Shannon Rosa was invited to participate in the 2021 UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit, on a panel debating the role of the Neurodiversity Movement in supporting and including autistic people with intellectual and communication disabilities.

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Autism: A Vision for a More Equitable Future

Posted on April 30, 2021March 16, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

“For too long autistic children have been just taught what they should do to fit in a neurotypical mold, instead of being taught who they are as autistic people, and who neurotypical people are as a neurotypical people, and how to appreciate both, and build translations between the two.”

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Autism

Autistic Commonality and the Illusion of “Quirky”

Posted on May 23, 2018December 15, 2022 by Emily Paige Ballou

It’s not okay to dismiss one autistic person’s lived experience as having nothing to do with “real” autism simply because you don’t understand what autism is like for them.

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Autism

What the Neurodiversity Movement Does—And Doesn’t—Offer

Posted on February 6, 2018April 18, 2022 by Emily Paige Ballou

From its inception, not only did the neurodiversity movement’s values include the most significantly disabled, but those individuals themselves were among our earliest pioneers.

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Autism

Eleven Ways You Can Make Your Autistic Child’s Life Easier

Posted on April 4, 2017May 3, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This is a mini-guide for parents to think about autistic matters and perspectives they may not know about, and which may help them and their kids live the Best Lives Possible.

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