Autistic & Divergent Community Voices

Autistic Community Voices & Allies

A look at Autistic and divergent community voices, plus a few of our allies.

A Stranger in Godzone

• Stranger in Godzone gets interviewed
  April 19, 2022 by StrangerInGodzone
• Two Big Mistakes People Make About Autistics
  March 25, 2022 by StrangerInGodzone
• Why Is The World Going Backwards?
  March 7, 2022 by StrangerInGodzone
• My Struggles With Executive Dysfunction
  January 12, 2022 by StrangerInGodzone
• The World Is Broken, And It Breaks Us
  August 28, 2021 by StrangerInGodzone
• That So-called Stigma
  July 28, 2021 by StrangerInGodzone

Ann’s Autism Blog by Ann Memmott

• Transforming our understanding of autistic people – Perception of Pain & Distress in Others
  February 3, 2022 by Ann Memmott
• Useful New Autism Info for Care Settings
  November 30, 2021 by Ann Memmott
• Strengths-Based Approaches for Autistic Individuals
  November 20, 2021 by Ann Memmott
• What is autism? A modern understanding for 2021
  October 20, 2021 by Ann Memmott
• Autism is not a look or a behaviour. About enforcing 'Masking'.
  September 25, 2021 by Ann Memmott
• Autistic people and phone calls
  September 2, 2021 by Ann Memmott

Aucademy

• Functioning burnout: can’t stop, won’t stop
  April 8, 2022 by autisticltd
• Autistic shields, Autistic communities
  March 24, 2022 by autisticltd
• Grace Liu – Approaching Autistic Adulthood: The Road Less Travelled.
  March 23, 2022 by autisticltd
• Autistic theories of Autistic experience
  March 17, 2022 by Aucademy
• De-centering the ‘male’ Autistic experience
  March 15, 2022 by autisticltd
• Autistic April: Aucademy downloadable educational posters to share this April (& all year!)
  March 14, 2022 by Aucademy

Autistic Collaborative

• Autistic ways of being, trauma, and diagnosis
  May 8, 2022 by Jorn Bettin
• Co-creating Autistic / ND communities
  April 1, 2022 by jornandulku
• Depowered feral Autistic relationships
  March 4, 2022 by jornandulku
• Open letter to the Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism
  February 14, 2022 by Jorn Bettin
• The Autistic pace of life in the ocean
  February 13, 2022 by Jorn Bettin

Autistic Inertia

• Initiation triad
  May 20, 2022 by Karen L Buckle
• Why ‘first come first served’ is not fair
  April 6, 2022 by Karen L Buckle
• Protected: What I do
  March 12, 2022 by Karen L Buckle
• Miracle App and what support workers aren’t
  August 31, 2021 by Karen L Buckle
• Working from home
  January 15, 2021 by Karen L Buckle
• First article on autistic inertia
  December 16, 2020 by Karen L Buckle

Autistic Not Weird

• Results and Analysis of the Autistic Not Weird 2022 Autism Survey
  March 23, 2022 by CaptainQuirk
• Top ten acts of cruelty that would cause outrage if they happened to non-autistic children
  August 14, 2021 by CaptainQuirk
• Fifty Autism Facts for World Autism Acceptance Day
  April 2, 2021 by CaptainQuirk
• So, you want to teach autistic students? Here are 12 tips from an autistic teacher.
  January 25, 2021 by CaptainQuirk
• Twenty tips for aspiring writers, from an autistic novelist
  August 9, 2020 by CaptainQuirk
• Ten vital reasons to never, ever share an autism meltdown video
  July 17, 2020 by CaptainQuirk

Autistic Parent UK

• Reconsidering Parenting through an Autism Lens
  May 22, 2022
• Personal Account: Anxiety in the Third Trimester
  April 4, 2022
• Self-identification is valid. Formal identification is a privilege.
  February 22, 2022
• Personal Account: Bonding with my baby – It wasn’t like a Disney movie
  February 15, 2022
• Personal Account: Breastfeeding as an Autistic Parent
  February 9, 2022
• Personal Account: The Internal Eternal Scream
  February 5, 2022

Autistic Science Person

• 10 Tips for Parents New to Autism
  January 5, 2022 by Autistic Science Person
• Why Social Skills Training Does Not Help Autistic People
  November 28, 2021 by Autistic Science Person
• Autistic Unmasking: How to Unlearn Trauma Responses
  November 13, 2021 by Autistic Science Person
• Autistic Burnout Is More Than Burnout
  September 26, 2021 by Autistic Science Person
• What Autistic Advocacy Really Means
  September 11, 2021 by Autistic Science Person
• The Advantage of Pauses
  August 19, 2021 by Autistic Science Person

Autistic Strategies Network

• Aggression in autistic children: Resources
  April 24, 2022 by Tania Melnyczuk
• Nonspeaking autists on radio
  April 1, 2022 by Tania Melnyczuk
• Messages for Autism Awareness Month 2022
  March 29, 2022 by Tania Melnyczuk
• A call to ban ABA: Panel at the Global Disability Summit
  February 16, 2022 by Tania Melnyczuk
• Very controlling
  December 8, 2021 by Tania Melnyczuk
• “AUTISTIC” JUST SAY “AUTISTIC”
  December 8, 2021 by Tania Melnyczuk

Autistic Women & Non-Binary Network (AWN)

• A Series of Essays on Hmong and Disability for Asian American Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month
  May 20, 2022 by Kayley Whalen
• #StopTheShock: Why we should all support Andre’s Law in New York
  May 13, 2022 by Lydia Brown
• Latine Lesbian Visibility on TV: My Special Interest in Juliantina
  April 26, 2022 by Kayley Whalen
• Visibilidad lesbiana latine en la pantalla: mi interés especial en Juliantina
  April 26, 2022 by Kayley Whalen
• AWN Women’s History Month Community Roundtable
  March 31, 2022 by Lydia Brown
• AWN Community Black History Month Roundtable 2022
  February 26, 2022 by Lydia Brown

Cambria’s Big Fat Autistic Blog

• I Found an Author
  May 23, 2022 by cambriaj1977
• Autistic Suggestion: A Quiet Room at the E.R. Required
  May 15, 2022 by cambriaj1977
• Gandhi was Right
  May 13, 2022 by cambriaj1977
• The Topsy Turvy Body Clock
  May 9, 2022 by cambriaj1977
• Menopause Diaries, May 7, 2022
  May 7, 2022 by cambriaj1977
• Autistic Menopause Diaries: May 4, 2022
  May 5, 2022 by cambriaj1977

Emergent Divergence by David Gray-Hammond

• Reflection on Texas school shooting from my Autistic perspective
  May 25, 2022 by David Gray-Hammond
• Creating Autistic Suffering: Professionals, why don’t they know?
  May 25, 2022 by David Gray-Hammond
• Autistic Substance Use Survey 2022
  May 18, 2022 by David Gray-Hammond
• Creating Autistic Suffering: Clustered injustice compounds minority stress in Autistic experiences
  May 17, 2022 by David Gray-Hammond
• Double empathy, solipsism, and neurotypicality
  May 11, 2022 by David Gray-Hammond
• Mental health and the neurodiversity paradigm
  May 9, 2022 by David Gray-Hammond

In The Loop About Neurodiversity

• Comparing White House Proclamations for World Autism “Awareness” Day
  April 3, 2021
• Strict Compliance Does Not Belong in the Virtual Classroom, Either.
  January 14, 2021
• Sia’s New Movie, “Music” is a Missed Opportunity for Authentic Disability Representation.
  November 20, 2020
• Rosa’s Law Ten Years Later: The Road to End the R-Word
  October 5, 2020
• Who Should We “Bridge the Gap” With in Our Advocacy?
  June 19, 2020

Just Stimming … by Julia Bascom

• These things are not luxuries
  May 19, 2022 by Julia
• About “Functional Play”
  December 20, 2021 by Julia
• Space Lettuce
  November 17, 2016 by Julia
• #DressingWhileDisabled
  February 1, 2015 by Julia
• The Talk
  January 17, 2015 by Julia
• Dangerous Assumptions
  December 21, 2014 by Julia

Navigating Life

• Autistic Adults exist!
  March 8, 2022 by M
• International Day of Disabilities / Persons with disabilities Rally
  December 4, 2021 by M
• Making waves and making change
  October 4, 2021 by M
• What’s new?
  July 19, 2021 by M
• The (Perceived) Exploitation of Disabled People
  July 7, 2021 by M
• More good things!
  April 28, 2021 by M

Neuroclastic

• Press Release: Judge Rotenberg Center Threatens NeuroClastic with Defamation Suit
  May 10, 2022 by NeuroClastic
• Autistic ways of being, trauma, and diagnosis
  May 9, 2022 by Jorn Bettin
• Free PDF download: Thin Slice Judgements and The Different World Autistics Inhabit
  May 5, 2022 by Terra Vance
• LONG-READ – Autistic While Black in the UK: Masking, Codeswitching, and Other (Non)fictions
  April 28, 2022 by Tré Ventour-Griffiths
• The Performance of April and Autism Awareness Month
  April 28, 2022 by Emmanuel
• Mental Health: Focusing Beyond the Individual
  April 21, 2022 by Max Taylor

Neurodivergent Rebel

• What is it Really Like Being Autistic
  May 25, 2022 by Lyric Holmans
• I See Autistic & NeuroDivergent People Who Don’t KNOW their Minds Work Differently
  May 18, 2022 by Lyric Holmans
• My Autistic Experience of the Human Communication Spectrum
  May 11, 2022 by Lyric Holmans
• Autistic & NeuroDivergent Academic Exclusion & Oppression
  May 4, 2022 by Lyric Holmans
• The Exclusion & Dehumanization of Autistic & NeuroDivergent People
  April 27, 2022 by Lyric Holmans
• We Don’t Have a Definition for Autistic Success Because We Only Talk About Autistic Struggles & Pain
  April 20, 2022 by Lyric Holmans

Neurodiversity News

• Interview: Jen Schonger
  January 31, 2022 by admin
• How NOT to Portray High-Support Autistic People
  October 3, 2021 by admin
• Review: We’re Not Broken by Eric Garcia
  August 4, 2021 by admin
• Autism and the Impact of Apocalyptic Fearmongering
  July 26, 2021 by admin
• Interview: Lillian Carrier
  May 19, 2021 by admin
• Autism Awareness vs. Acceptance. What’s the Difference?
  April 13, 2021 by admin

Non-Compliant The Podcast By Ann Borden

• Algorithms and Outrage: Talking social media with Charles Arthur, author of Social Warming
  December 20, 2021 by a4aontario
• “Kids need to play”: Talking about the pandemic and kids’ mental health with suicidologist Tyler Black
  December 16, 2021 by a4aontario
• “The most effective way to stop it is public pressure”: Talking about Spectrum10K with Irish autistic activist Ryan Hendry
  October 28, 2021 by a4aontario
• “There are a lot of areas autism researchers have viewed as deficits that can actually confer advantages”: Talking with MIT researchers Anila D’Mello and Liron Rozenkrantz
  August 24, 2021 by a4aontario
• “If you look at how much has changed in the last 5 years, we’ve definitely made progress”: A conversation with autistic lawyer Haley Moss
  August 10, 2021 by a4aontario
• On conflicts of interest in autism research: Interview with Kristen Bottema-Beutel and Micheal Sandbank
  June 21, 2021 by a4aontario

Not An Autism Mom

• 100-ish Books for Autistic Adolescents, Teens, and Tweens
  April 11, 2022 by Not an Autism Mom
• Saying “I Am Autistic” Gave Me New Life
  March 6, 2022 by Not an Autism Mom
• Why I Let My Neurodivergent Children Off the Hook
  February 12, 2022 by Not an Autism Mom
• I Don’t Prepare My Autistic Children for the Real World Because It Doesn’t Exist.
  January 22, 2022 by Not an Autism Mom
• 100-ish Books for Adults Exploring Their Own Autistic Identity
  January 15, 2022 by Not an Autism Mom
• ASHA’s Position Statement on FC and RPM Violates My Child’s Human Rights
  January 4, 2022 by Not an Autism Mom

The Autistic Advocate by Kieran Rose

• Call for Participants: Identity and How It Relates To Our Interests
  February 1, 2022 by The Autistic Advocate
• Spectrum10K: Extreme controversy and a fail for ethics
  September 29, 2021 by The Autistic Advocate
• Spectrum10K, Autism, Autistic people and the controversy of SBC
  September 11, 2021 by The Autistic Advocate

Thinking Person’s Guide To Autism

• How to Make Your Workplace More Neurodiversity-Inclusive
  May 13, 2022 by Luce Greenwood
• Son-Rise, ABA, and The Problems of the Autism Therapy Industry
  May 3, 2022 by Anne Borden
• April and Accommodations: Don’t Make Me Make Eye Contact!
  April 30, 2022 by Ira Eidle
• How Author Sarah Kapit Writes Authentic Autistic Kid Lit Characters
  April 29, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa
• Understanding How Routines Can Help Autistic People
  April 27, 2022 by Fergus Murray
• April and Accommodations: Stop Talking to Me Like I’m a Child!
  April 26, 2022 by Lummine

StimPunks

• Missed in Childhood: Nearly All Autistic and ADHD Women
  May 22, 2022 by Ryan Boren
• May 2022, so far, at Stimpunks: New Pages for the Website
  May 14, 2022 by Ryan Boren
• Vendetta Music Fest (and everyone else) vs. Our Loved People: They’re Promoting and Funding Ableism in Our Name
  March 19, 2022 by Ryan Boren
• Stimpunks and Vancerts Presents: The Bobby Lees and Forty Feet Tall
  March 17, 2022 by Ryan Boren
• Graph of an Autistic Heart Confronting Injustice
  March 16, 2022 by Ryan Boren
• The Benevolence of Surrender: Connected, Trusting Relationships
  March 7, 2022 by Ryan Boren

Yenn Purkis Autism Page

• Autism – pros and cons of diagnosis – and why the cons aren’t really cons
  May 25, 2022 by Yenn
• Things ableists say
  May 21, 2022 by Yenn
• “You don’t speak for my child.” Actually no, I don’t
  May 18, 2022 by Yenn
• ‘I’m not trans enough’, ‘I’m not autistic enough’ – how I overcame this thinking to come to a place of acceptance
  May 11, 2022 by Yenn
• I will stim if I want to – or why I don’t like ‘quiet hands’
  May 7, 2022 by Yenn
• “Ooh I’ve never seen that before…” – the trouble with being medically atypical
  May 1, 2022 by Yenn