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To keep the crowds coming back, a dramatic new clinical breakthrough must be claimed every couple of years so that last year’s model becomes obsolete. But everything will remain muddled.

In my last post, I talked about my recent language difficulties and mentioned autistic regression. Sometimes called autistic burnout, autistic regression is a loss of skills or coping mechanisms. R…

Extreme demand avoidance (EDA) is increasingly described as part of the autism spectrum and is sometimes diagnosed as Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). Yet little is known, about the educational...

Is the PDA Autism profile helpful, or does it further pathologize Autistics?

Created for The Universe in Verse 2020. Original Baldwin text in context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/21/nothing-is-fixed-james-baldwin-morley-music

“The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us a…

My kids have been kicked out of many, many places for being different—just like I was.

From ADHD to Tourettes, learn about different neurotypes here!

“Designed specifically for busy instructional leaders, our Plug and Plays provide all needed materials…”, reads the introductory line for…

Librarypunk is growing in volumes as new books celebrate libraries as portals to magical worlds inhabited by fascinating characters.

The DC Punk Archive at DC Public Library supports the city's fabled music scene by hosting basement shows—a punk staple—in the library itself.

Information, education, community, and support for individuals, families and professionals. Empowering Individuals, Building Community

To directly support and help empower autistic people and their families, please consider donating to the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network or the Asperger/Autism Network. RECOMMENDED READING. FOR PARENTS and CLINICIANS: Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autismby Barry Prizant and Tom...

If you are reading this manifesto, you are likely in the privileged position of being able to be an ally, and to help the Autistic people with whom you live or work or interact to realise their rights and feel loved and welcomed in the world, as they are, not as you (or anyone else) would like them to be. You have the chance to shape the narrative of Autism to one that unites us as a community defined by mutual respect and appreciation. I invite you to see Autism from an Autistic viewpoint, and to join our Autistic community on our journey to acceptance.

Considerations when selecting a venue for WordCamp As an organizer, venue selection can be challenging when considering the accessibility of convention centers, university or office buildings, and …

In this episode, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the fabric of the WordPress project and how we can move from a place of welcoming it to cher…

The first open source accessibility platform, integrating all your WebOps. - GitHub - bbertucc/equalify: The first open source accessibility platform, integrating all your WebOps.

Most of you are bullshitting, part infinity

Welcome to the Human Restoration Project Ops Center, a space to take action on implementing a progressive, human-centered education system across the world.

Creative Commons provides a range of licenses, each of which grants different rights to use the materials licensed under them. All of these licenses offer more permissions than “all rights reserved.” To help show more clearly what the different CC licenses let people do, CC marks the most permissive of its licenses as “Approved for … Read More "Understanding Free Cultural Works"

There are many different perspectives for understanding autism. These perspectives may each convey different levels of stigma for autistic individuals. This qualitative study aimed to understand ho...

what are the principles of cripple punk? Are there any rules? principles of cripple punk: -cripple punk is exclusively by the physically disabled for the physically disabled -cripple punk is about...

The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16

These two things are really kissing cousins. Backchannel The backchannel has really become my favorite tool of choice when I'm presenting....

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that’s not a bad thing?…

Everybody who makes software needs to be working on fixing a much bigger and more important set of bugs

For all those years of knowing I loved women, I didn’t understand that the love I felt for some male friends could also be a romantic attraction.