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Behaviorism, Compliance, and the Subversiveness of Autistic Pride – Ryan Boren
It is deeply subversive to live proudly despite being living embodiments of our culture’s long standing ethical failings. Source: THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: On Hans Asperger, the Nazis, and Autism: A Conversation Across Neurologies This conversation between Steve Silberman and Maxfield Sparrow on Hans Asperger, Nazis, and autism connects past with present through the ever present themes of compliance and behaviorism. Seeing non-compliance…
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Autistic Activist | I was an Institutionalized, Labeled Low Functioning, Non-verbal Autistic Child: Achieved Independent Living At 35.
All that time, I was told I was too low-functioning to be allowed to have an opinion about my prospects, what I could or could not do, I was told that treatment was wasted on me. There were people with real prospects who could make better use of the resources. — Dr. Elena M Chandler…
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Judith Newman Excludes 70 Million Autistic People While Marketing “To Siri With Love” | #BoycottJudithNewman #BoycottToSiri
pan 70 million Autistics around the world and Judith Newman didn’t write her book for the autistic market. Um, yeah she did. Her Autistic market. Right now “The Autistic Market” is aimed at NT-moms of Autistic kids. Newman wrote for the NT-idea of the autistic market. So when she says she didn’t write for the #actuallyautistic market —…