An Open Letter To The Guardian’s Editor
Executive summary: The Guardian persistently presents a medicalised pathology view of Autism which is inconsistent with the concept of the…
Category: Autistic Life
The Candle and The Forest Fire
I was recently attacked while I was at home, at least that’s how it felt to me. The challenging thing…
Spikiness
I have recently had opportunities to have conversations with a wide range of people, from experts in workforce development, to…
The Window Through Which You Are Staring Is A Mirror
The Symmetry of Communication ‘Deficits’ between Autistic and Non-Autistic People ‘Everyone Knows’ that Autistic people have a ‘deficit’ in social…
Too Big A Question
Communication works better for both of us, and the solution relies on a non-autistic person communicating a little differently, which is easy, rather than an person autistic doing a lot of mental work which is hard.
Autistic Communication Is a Feature, not a Bug
Don’t think of inclusion as helping us get by in the structures built by and for ‘not us,’ rather think of how you can help us change the structure so that it is ours as much as it is yours.
Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day 2021: Myths Debunked and Futures Envisioned
While I think most people have at least heard of autism, and many of us have autistic people in our lives, there are still a lot of gaps in people’s knowledge about autism.
Slaying Dragons
Misadventure The small band of adventurers are embroiled in combat. One of the monsters they are battling almost flies up…
The Autism Spectrum is N-Dimensional
The idea that neurotypical and autistic might be different regions of the same spectrum seems sensible. The presumption that all members of either group maintain a position of inferiority or superiority relative to all members of the other group is deeply wrong and encourages anti-autistic biases.
Necessary But Not Sufficient
If we really want to claim that our societies value diversity and inclusion we must expand beyond the disability model, and hold everyone to a standard of not just removing the barriers caused by difference, but of actively valuing the ways in which difference is a strength.