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Autism

Against Autism Pseudoscience: An Interview with Anne Borden King

Posted on March 27, 2023March 28, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

We spoke with autistic advocate and autism pseudoscience watchdog Anne Borden King about the continued proliferation of questionable and outright fraudulent “treatments” for autism.

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Autism

Autism Rates Are Now 1 in 36. Here’s Why That Is a Good Thing.

Posted on March 24, 2023March 27, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

The new 1 in 36 autism rate means the CDC is getting better at finding and diagnosing existing autistic children, not that there is actually a higher rate of autism.

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Autistic

Self-Advocacy Lessons From An Autistic Breast Cancer Survivor

Posted on March 1, 2023March 8, 2023 by Christine Jenkins

Learning to advocate for myself, after learning late in life I was autistic, has given me the strength, self-awareness, and tools to stand up for myself after I was suddenly deposited back on the breast cancer treadmill.

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Autistic

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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Accommodations

I Embrace My Robot Overlords (and ChatGPT)

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Maxfield Sparrow

One of the positives of ChatGPT’s engaging with me on topics related to neurodiversity, access, activism, and autism is that I am giving GPT a chance to learn an Autistic perspective from an Autistic person.

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Autistic

Trauma Clashes: Staying Calm When Someone is Melting Down

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Maxfield Sparrow

When you look up what Autistic people have said about how to help us through meltdowns, the most foundational piece of advice you will see again and again is to remain calm. But what about when you can’t remain calm? What about when that Autistic person’s meltdown is triggering your own trauma response?

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auditory processing

The Magic of Noise Canceling Ear Protection

Posted on December 5, 2022December 5, 2022 by Autistic Science Person

Every time I find a new ear protection tool, I am more and more amazed as to how other people can believe that we’re hearing the same thing.

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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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acceptance

Autism and Ageism

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 by Maxfield Sparrow

You can listen and understand and believe and respect autistic adults every bit as much as you do those things with autistic children. If you don’t, you’re being ageist.

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Apologies Twitter has become near-unusable for threading. The full thread for the SNS panel on ND and the legal system is on BlueSky and I will try to re-paste over here in a few.

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Sam Crane: Adult guardianship means a court appoints another person to make decisions for another adult. Guardianship gives another adult a HUGE amount of control over another adult. Like dating, friendships, medical care. It's an incredibly restrictive system, people lose rights

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The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit 2023's Human Rights panel on Neurodiversity, Discrimination, and the Legal System starts in less than 45 minutes! We will be moderating, and will be live-tweeting/skeeting as we can. #neurodiversity

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If you are a parent/caregiver for an autistic person, we beg you to consider our Autism Checklist of Doom: Things that may upset an autistic person & cause distress, but may not be obvious to a bystander. Let's help the autistic people in our lives thrive!

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