self-advocacy

A Latvian-American person with short dark hair and glasses. They are smiling and posing near a house on a shoreline, at dusk.

You Can’t Have Neurodiversity Without People With Intellectual Disabilities

Some organizations say they want to focus on people with intellectual disabilities, but they ignore the self advocacy movement and autistic people with ID like me. We don’t want institutions! We don’t want segregation, we want freedom and autonomy and support in the community! They just need to see what the ID community has been asking for!

Black and white photo of a person with long dark hair and light skin, against a wall, holding their hands up at length in front of their face.

The Meaning of Self-Advocacy

When people generally said to be incapable of communication find ways of making clear what they do and don’t want through means other than words, this is self-advocacy.

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