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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
What do people mean when they repeat the myth that “Autistic people lack empathy?” Which sort of empathy? What evidence is there?
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.
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?
“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.
Autistic and ADHD traits combine to create AuDHD just like red and blue overlap, intersect, and interact in a tie-dye t-shirt to make unique color combinations.
