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Wendy Portillo and other systematic abuse of autistics

Wendy Portillo still has her job. There are literally no words...

Filed under: accommodation, rants, news, autism as disability, links, self-advocacy, advocacy, neurodiversity, education, autism, Alex Barton
Autism/Asperger's links, news and commentary, week of June 11, 2009

1) A study in four U.S. cities is planning to follow a number...

Filed under: autism awareness, rants, science, studies, links, neurodiversity, government, autism, autism speaks, law
Autism and vaccines and demons, oh my!

Morton's Demon - a hypothetical creature that a scientist...

Filed under: rants, vaccines, science, autism, confirmation bias
Autism/Asperger's links, news and commentary, week of June 4

1) Dora Raymaker has written a primer on news stories about autism...

Filed under: accommodation, rants, news, autism as disability, science, studies, health, autism treatment, cure, medicine, education, therapy
Is tone deafness acceptable? Why not face blindness?

It should not surprise anyone that I, like many other autistic...

Filed under: rants, autism as disability, social interaction, self-advocacy, neurodiversity, living, face blindness
Daniel Hauser and the rights of patients

Let me make one thing clear: I want Daniel Hauser to recieve...

Filed under: rants, news, vaccines, autism as disability, health, autism treatment, cure, government, medicine
Ari Ne'eman is receiving more death threats

John Best, writer of a blog called "Hating Autism"...

Filed under: rants, autism as disability, links, self-advocacy, advocacy, blogs, neurodiversity
Pro-acceptance isn't automatically anti-"cure," or the real cost of "at any cost"

While I'm on the topic of assumptions people make about autism...

Filed under: rants, discrimination, autism as disability, neurodiversity, autism treatment, cure
It's Never That Simple: Autism, Assumptions and Ability

(This is my contribution to Blogging Against Disabilism Day 2009...

Filed under: autism awareness, rants, autism as disability, advocacy, neurodiversity, blogging against disabilism day
Autism is autism. Everything else is everything else. Any questions?

If an animal does something we call it instinct; if we do the...

Filed under: rants, news, science, sensory processing disorder, links, media, self-advocacy, advocacy, health

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