AutINSAR is an online and in-person discussion about autistic priorities in autism research, and is an invaluable resource for autism researchers who want to help autistic people live their best lives.
To combat double empathy problem fallout for autistics, we need collaboration. Autistic people themselves need to be setting the agenda.
Autism training for police is not enough. ASAN has been saying this for a very long time. There is very little data to suggest that these trainings improve police interactions with autistic people or reduce violence against our community.
A particular kind of grief follows me now that I am on a solitary path, a sorrow as spiky as my neurotype.
How one autistic mother’s pursuit of truth is part of a broader shift toward patient-led accountability, ethics, and reform.
Autism research is a revolving door which Autistic people virtually never get to enter and allistics virtually never bother to exit.
Ember Green debunks “profound autism” and anti-neurodiversity, with its cherry-picked numbers and fear-mongering, as “This is about the future of autism care, the way we view our disabled community members, and importantly, who gets to speak.”
Autism will never fit in the disease model, because it is not a disease; it is part of the human condition. That is the beauty of the spectrum concept.
When done well, differential diagnosis can counteract rather than reproduce the power imbalances that have historically led to marginalizing neurodivergent people.
Here are just seven of my childhood traits and behaviors that I now understand were great big clues that I was autistic — and that might lead to an early diagnosis if I were growing up today
