The Autism Integration Paradox

Hyper sensitivity is real, but the term HSP dehumanizes autistic people.

We have autistic children who need us to support them as architects of their own liberation against the schools and clinicians and institutions and police and prosecutors who would crush and destroy them. AUTISTIC HOYA: THE NEURODIVERSITY MOVEMENTS NEEDS ITS SHOES OFF, AND FISTS UP. The picture shows a school classroom as I see it, […]

“I feel for you” is a saying often used to show empathy for others, but for Mirror-Touch synaesthetes like Adrian Miles, it’s their literal experience.Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia (MTS) is a rare form of synaesthesia which causes individuals to experience a similar sensation (such as pain or touch) in the same part or opposite part of the body to that they witness in another person. Adrian Miles only learnt a name for the intense embodiment of others they experience much later in life, following decades of mental and physical intrusions.This is Adrian’s story.

Autismus bleibt oft unentdeckt: Über die Auswirkungen auf das tägliche Leben und warum es zu wenig Diagnosestellen gibt.

Instead of trying to reform the diagnostic process, we should work to move past it.

This is a raw, unfiltered truth. Many of us who are autistic… live it. But we don’t talk about it.. much. At least not out loud…

The story that Hans Asperger saved autistic children from the Nazis is exposed as a myth in Edith Sheffer’s new biography

The diagnostic terms for autism were overhauled 10 years ago. Experts, campaigners and autistic people reflect on these changes

What you believe the "autism spectrum" means is not what it actually means. It's more like...