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Crowd of neurodivergent people posing in the corner of the INSAR press room. Back row: Emily and Manuel Casanova, Jon Adams, Bret Heasman, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Anne Fritz, Cat Hughes, Aaron Bouma, Bethan Davies, Corina Becker, Stephanie Vreeland, and Steven Kapp. Center row: Sara Luterman, Christina Nicolaidis, Lorcan Kenny, Christine Jenkins, and Louise Tardif. Front: TPGA editors Shannon Rosa and Carol Greenburg.

AutINSAR 2019: Discussing Autistic Priorities For Autism Research

May 27, 2019 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

AutINSAR is a conversation between autistic people and/or autism researchers about needed autism research directions, priorities, oversights, course corrections, and goals.

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Contributors

May 14, 2020 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

A full list of the contributors to Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, with short biographies.

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Against Autism Pseudoscience: An Interview with Anne Borden King

March 27, 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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Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism’s MAGA Movement

November 16, 2022 • 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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My Autistic Son Needs Extensive Supports. And Yet, I Oppose Labels Like “Severe Autism.”

January 27, 2019 • By Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Recently my teen autistic son and I walked around a fancy shopping center, while his sibling was at a nearby appointment (public strolls are not always something he can do, but that day he was up for it). We ambled past the coin collector’s shop and the jodhpurs boutique, then popped into the housewares store—just