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Autistic Voices | From Adult Misdiagnosis To Ban Seclusion in New Jersey Schools
ADULT MISDIAGNOSIS: THE DEFAULT PATH TO AN AUTISTIC IDENTITY By Autistic Science Person, TPGA I was lucky. This story isn’t about me. But it really could have been. I found out I was autistic before ever being misdiagnosed with anything. It’s time to ban seclusion in New Jersey schools New Jersey is considering new legislation after […]
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Autistic & Ally Voices: “I Will Die On This Hill” To Therapies That Actually Help Autistic Children | August 2022
WHICH THERAPIES ACTUALLY HELP AUTISTIC CHILDREN? By Shannon Des Roches Rosa At two-and-a-half, my autistic son spoke more words than many other autistic kids in his early intervention speech therapies group. At the time I knew very little about how varied autistic traits could be, so I assumed this pattern would continue. Yet, two years later, several […]
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Archive | Anne Borden King | #AutisticHistory
Anne Borden King Anne Borden King is the founder of the Campaign Against Phony Autism Cures, Canada and the host of Noncompliant, a podcast about neurodiversity. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Globe and Mail, among other publications. She is the winner of the 2021 Helen Henderson Literary Award from the Centre for […]
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Archived | PBS Press Release: Autism Today — Autism Awareness Month | April 2011 #AutisticHistory #BanABA
From: Fox Valley Sibling Support Network <fvssn@fvssn.org>To: <SibGroup@yahoogroups.com>, <AdultSibGroup@yahoogroups.com>Cc: Bcc: Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:00:58 -0500Subject: [SibGroup] PBS Press Release: Autism Today–Autism Awareness Month Check this out…PBS during the week of April 18-26. Autism, including sibling experience on April 18. Caren Zucker was also the producer for the ABC News coverage featuring Don Meyer and Sibshops in Appleton, WI a […]
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Podcast | Wake. Bake. Caffeinate. Ep. 6: Celebrity Influencers & Autism Organizations That Spoke For Autistics In 2007 | Eve Reiland
Autism Speaks, Autism Society of America, Bradley Whitford and other Autism organizations and influencers speak at the Autism Treatment and Research Hearing about controversial therapies in 2007. TW: Filicide ideation, suicide ideation, tragedy narrative, autistic conversation therapy, aba, functioning labels, ableism, legislation without representation, stigma, ‘autism community,’ and more. Wake. Bake. Caffeinate Episode 6: Welcome […]
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Podcast | Wake. Bake. Caffeinate: Autistic Conversion Therapy & Legislation Without Representation | Eve Reiland
Podcast Episode 5: Autistic Conversion Therapy & Legislation Without Representation [Not An Exact Transcript] In this episode: Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in the news. News Stories JRC History with Lydia X. Z. Brown ASAN Statment Autistic Women & Non-Binary Network (AWN) Statement Call-To-Action and walk-through on AutisticSciencePerson.com #StopTheShock Some Autistic Culture and Langauge … Talking […]
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Liberate Neurodivergents: Your Behavior Is Challenging To Us | #LiberateNDs
Liberate Neurodivergents Who gets to decide what is “challenging behavior?” Because, if you ask any neurodivergent person, we’ll tell you, it’s neurotypicals who expect everyone to act precisely as they do, who are most challenging to us. Yet neurodivergent behavior is constantly called, “challenging,” which centers neurotypicals, not us. Are we challenging you when we […]
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