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Book cover with a white background. Large colorful letters occupying most of the image readsĀ "We're Not Broken". Smaller black text underneath readsĀ "Changing the Autism Conversation". Smaller colorful text underneath reads, "Eric Garcia".
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We’re Not Broken: Talking with Autistic Journalist Eric Garcia About Changing the Autism Conversation

Posted on September 4, 2021April 17, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

“The way we diagnose kids overwhelmingly leads to Black and Latino kids getting diagnosed with behavioral disorders instead of autism. It also excludes a lot of women and femme people, to say nothing of transgender males and nonbinary people. We also ignore a lot of people for whom English is a second language.”

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