How Should We Be Talking About The Peter Pan Girl?
Disability advocacy has to include understanding that disabled people may display behaviours that are uncomfortable, and balancing that knowledge with keeping everyone safe.
Autism Policy, and Why Last Week’s IACC Meeting Should Worry You
RFK Jr. reshaped the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to better fit his questionable views on autism priorities. We are grateful to former IACC member Sam Crane for her precise commentary on August 27th’s IACC meeting—including its less commendable as well as its promising efforts.
Sensory Tales: On Being Tender-Headed While Black and Autistic
Natasha Nelson reminds us that “how your brain processes the world is how you experience the world, so if a person tells you ‘this hurts me,’ it hurts them.”
I Feel In Neon
People used to tell me to calm down, like it’s a choice. For me, it was a dimmer switch I didn’t have. I wasn’t dramatic. I was fluorescent. And fluorescent things don’t dim on command.
“Profound Autism” Isn’t Going to Help the World Love A- the Way He Loves Himself
What I want more than anything is a word or a term that will make other people love A- as much as we do, and as much as he does himself.
Why Autistic People Need Understanding Beyond “Behaviors”
I don’t have a behavior problem. I have a gap in my adaptive ability. I don’t need habilitation training; I need someone to help me out.
Empathy Tests For Autistic People: What Are We Measuring?
What do people mean when they repeat the myth that “Autistic people lack empathy?” Which sort of empathy? What evidence is there?
Autistic But Misdiagnosed Until Adulthood: Talking With Author Laura Richmond
In which we talk with comedy writer Laura Richmond about her adult autism diagnosis, and also the parts of her life that were—and are not—funny.
Black Spectrum Scholar on Ethics In Online Autism Diagnoses
Why did Black Spectrum Scholar have their advocacy and motives challenged, after they asked whether an autism diagnosis business was behaving unethically in coaching people on how to take an online autism screening test?
Neurodiversity Needs Neuroinclusive Leadership
“Nothing about us without us” shouldn’t be read as exclusion. After all, every community needs allies. Instead, it should be understood as a call for more accurate, grounded, and accountable leadership.