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Affect creates media campaigns and resources that amplify multiply-marginalized folx and embody disability justice.
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Open Society
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Default to Open | 100%Open
stimpunks·100open.com·Open by default - Wikipedia
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Default to open - Proudly Serving
stimpunks·proudly-serving.gitbook.io·Do Things, Tell People.
stimpunks·carl.flax.ie·Default to Open · Issue #1 · Automattic/wp-calypso
The quality of our code and our product depend on the amount of feedback we get and on the amount of people who use them. If we’re developing behind closed doors, we are putting artificial limits t...
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Red Hat culture tip: default to open
After 10 years at Red Hat, I'll admit I am a little bit out of touch with what the corporate world looks like everywhere else. But after a recent conversation with someone out there in the non-Red ...
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Default to open - Code for America
Work in the open, proactively publish public data online, and collaborate with the community to help make services better for everyone.
stimpunks·web.archive.org·Page not found — Code for America
Government can and should work well for everyone. We’re people-centered problem solvers showing that it’s possible.
stimpunks·codeforamerica.org·An Inside View of Autism
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IQ and autism:
What do we measure with IQ tests? Measuring non-autistic people by [the autistic] type of development would often find them failing miserably and appearing to be thoroughly ‘subnormal’ by ‘autistic’ standards. (Donna Williams) Before we can discuss IQ tests and the way they are used with autistic population, we have to define what intelligence is. What is intelligence? And here we have a problem: there is no single definition of intelligence that has been universally accepted and we have to deal
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IQ scores not a good measure of function in autism | Spectrum | Autism Research News
Most studies define high-functioning children as those with an IQ above 70 or 80, but this is problematic for a number of reasons, say some scientists. The assumption underlying the use of high IQ as a synonym for high functioning is suspect because social and communicative abilities may have a far greater impact on an individual’s daily interactions.
“We couldn’t assess her reading skills in the way you need to do for a study like this, but she was clearly able to read and write.”
Children like this are unlikely to be included in cognitive and behavioral studies that focus increasingly on ‘high-functioning’ individuals with autism. Most studies define high-functioning children as those with an IQ above 70 or 80, but this is problematic for a number of reasons, say some scientists.
Researchers don’t all use the same test to measure intelligence, for one thing, and even when they do, IQ thresholds often vary among studies.
The assumption underlying the use of high IQ as a synonym for high functioning is also suspect because social and communicative abilities may have a far greater impact on an individual’s daily interactions.
“Crudely taking IQ as a metric to divide up individuals can be misleading, because high-functioning sounds like you are doing really well, when in fact you’re not,” says cognitive psychologist Tony Charman, professor of autism education at the University of London.
Regardless of the test, IQ may not be the best indicator of the ability of a person with autism to navigate the real world. “An individual’s level of functioning can more impacted by co-morbid mental health problems than by IQ — and this is particularly true for adults,” says Peter Szatmari, head of child psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at McMaster University in Ontario.
“There’s so much change that the IQ tests can’t capture the diversity of kids.”
stimpunks·spectrumnews.org·
Increased gender variance in autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - PubMed
Evidence suggests over-representation of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and behavioral difficulties among people referred for gender issues, but rates of the wish to be the other gender (gender variance) among different neurodevelopmental disorders are unknown. This chart review study explored rat …
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Relative influence of intellectual disabilities and autism on mental and general health in Scotland: a cross-sectional study of a whole country of 5.3 million children and adults
Objectives To determine the relative extent that autism and intellectual disabilities are independently associated with poor mental and general health, in children and adults.
Design Cross-sectional study. For Scotland’s population, logistic regressions investigated odds of intellectual disabilities and autism predicting mental health conditions, and poor general health, adjusted for age and gender.
Participants 1 548 819 children/youth aged 0-24 years, and 3 746 584 adults aged more than 25 years, of whom 9396/1 548 819 children/youth had intellectual disabilities (0.6%), 25 063/1 548 819 children/youth had autism (1.6%); and 16 953/3 746 584 adults had intellectual disabilities (0.5%), 6649/3 746 584 adults had autism (0.2%). These figures are based on self-report.
Main outcome measures Self-reported general health status and mental health.
Results In children/youth, intellectual disabilities (OR 7.04, 95% CI 6.30 to 7.87) and autism (OR 25.08, 95% CI 23.08 to 27.32) both independently predicted mental health conditions. In adults, intellectual disabilities (OR 3.50, 95% CI 3.20 to 3.84) and autism (OR 5.30, 95% CI 4.80 to 5.85) both independently predicted mental health conditions. In children/youth, intellectual disabilities (OR 18.34, 95% CI 17.17 to 19.58) and autism (OR 8.40, 95% CI 8.02 to 8.80) both independently predicted poor general health. In adults, intellectual disabilities (OR 7.54, 95% CI 7.02 to 8.10) and autism (OR 4.46, 95% CI 4.06 to 4.89) both independently predicted poor general health.
Conclusions Both intellectual disabilities and autism independently predict poor health, intellectual disabilities more so for general health and autism more so for mental health. Intellectual disabilities and autism are not uncommon, and due to their associated poor health, sufficient services/supports are needed. This is not just due to coexistence of these conditions or just to having intellectual disabilities, as the population with autism is independently associated with substantial health inequalities compared with the general population, across the entire life course.
stimpunks·bmjopen.bmj.com·
Association of Race/Ethnicity and Social Disadvantage With Autism Prevalence in 7 Million School Children in England
This national cohort study evaluates whether socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with autism spectrum disorder prevalence and the likelihood of accessing autism services in racial/ethnic minority groups and disadvantaged groups among school pupils in England.
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Are males and females with autism spectrum disorder more similar than we thought? - Joanna L Mussey, Nicole C Ginn, Laura G Klinger, 2017
Differences in behavioral and cognitive profiles have been suggested to potentially impact the presentation of social and communication symptoms in females with...
stimpunks·journals.sagepub.com·
The Hidden Potential of Autistic Kids
What intelligence tests might be overlooking when it comes to autism
That is because testing for intelligence in autistic people is hard. The average person can sit down and take a verbally administered, timed test without too many problems. But for an autistic person with limited language capability, who might be easily distracted by sensory information, this task is very hard. The most commonly administered intelligence test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) almost seems designed to flunk an autistic person: it is a completely verbal, timed test that relies heavily on cultural and social knowledge. It asks questions like "What is the thing to do if you find an envelope in the street that is sealed, addressed and has a new stamp on it?" and "What is the thing to do when you cut your finger?"
Many of the conclusions were based on intelligence tests that tend to overestimate disability in autistic people. "Our knowledge is based on pretty bad data," she says.
stimpunks·scientificamerican.com·
Why IQ scores are erroneous for autistic people
When it comes to measuring the capabilities and challenges of autistic children and adults, IQ is one of the main measures that is employed....
Another big reason why intelligence tests are inaccurate measures, is that autistic people usually don't test well. These tests require a person to sit in a room for a long period of time and have questions that contain a lot of verbal information. The testing environment may also trigger sensory issues in some autistic individuals. Some also don't have the attention span and cooperation to do the tasks the test examiner wants them to complete . When I first got diagnosed, I took a verbal IQ test in which I did terribly on due to my limited language capacities. The examiner who was a young graduate student mistakenly thought that I had an intellectual disability based of my test results. When my mother talked with the head psychologist, she said I was given the wrong test. This shows how the structure of the tests themselves can not accurately predict the true intelligence levels of autistic people.
One of the reasons, why IQ tests are flawed is that it can underestimate or overestimate the abilities and challenges that autistic people actually have.
stimpunks·redefiningnormalayoungwomansjourney.blogspot.com·
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…
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Autism and IQ. Oh my, we had this one wrong, eh?
Updated February 2022 For decades, we were told that nearly all autistic people mostly have a low level of intelligence - a low IQ. ...
For decades, we were told that nearly all autistic people mostly have a low level of intelligence - a low IQ. This is a big part of being diagnosed with a 'learning disability' or 'intellectual disability' (shortened to LD or ID) This was based on a misunderstanding of autism, and a misunderstanding of which IQ tests work for us.
Then, there's how we measure IQ for autistic people. We'd often been using the wrong tests, it seems. Using a Raven's test, the IQ results for autistic people are way higher than we'd realised, for many. Here's a chart where people realised the error. Bit technical, so feel free to skip this explanation: Four sets of bars. Each shows a different IQ test. First two bars in each group of four is the results of female and male autistic people. Second two bars in each group of four is the results of female and male non-autistic people ('controls').The first three IQ tests showed a whacking great difference between autistic people and the non-autistic ones. But look at that Raven's test. Hardly any difference at all. Have we been accidentally putting a lot of autistic people into the 'intellectual disability' group when in fact their IQ is pretty normal?
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Perspective | As a disabled person, I know: American bootstrap culture is a lie.
The message they sell us is a lie: We all need others to get by.
stimpunks·washingtonpost.com·Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation | Amanda Cachia
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access. Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed and ready to be installed in the museum or gallery. But what ...
stimpunks·amandacachia.com·
Disability Voting Rights Week 2022 with Lilian Aluri, Dessa Cosma, and YT Bell - Judy Heumann
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:48 — 58.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | More Next week, September 12th to 16th, is Disability Voting Rights Week. Learn more about it through this episode with Lilian Aluri…
stimpunks·judithheumann.com·
The neurodiversity movements needs its shoes off, and fists up.
I have to respond with a resounding and vehement NO. I do not believe in even attempting to appease the impossible, asymptoptic standards of respectability politics and (white, abled, cis, masculine-centric) professionalism simply because such attempts will always and inevitably be doomed to fail.
Neurodiversity and Disability Justice, taken together, are indeed celebrations of who we are and how we exist in the world. They are also movements rooted in lived experience, which ask us to understand and engage with the many ways we relate to our bodies and brains, inside our own minds, and in social context.
We have protests to stage, driven by the fuel of our righteous anger. We have speeches to make, written from the soaring pleas of our individual and collective trauma, and our wildest dreams of joy and freedom and love. We have cultural narratives to rewrite because they really do hate us and they really will kill us, and if we’re going to rewrite the narratives, then there’s no reason to hold ourselves back from our most radical and defiant rewritings. 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.
We’re going to need our anger and our public celebrations of stimming and our complicated, imperfect, messy selves for this long and hard road, because we need all of us, and all of our tactics and strategies, to keep a movement going and ultimately, to win.
But we can’t possibly be committed to the long-haul work of liberation and justice — the freedom work, the community-building work, the creating-alternatives work — without completely rejecting the false promises and mythologies of respectability politics and its cousin, “civil discourse.”
Respectability politics didn’t save me then, and they won’t save our community or movement now or in the future either.
Believe me, I understand the need for day to day survival. If wearing a suit versus a t-shirt and jeans will make a difference in whether my advocacy for/with a friend or client works, of course I’ll wear the suit. If using certain academic/professional field-specific terminology will help an audience understand an argument I’m making, of course I’ll use that terminology (so long as it’s not something I find inherently dehumanizing). If I need to be careful about not dropping the word “fuck” during a job interview (which we all should strive to not do), of course I’ll be mindful of it.
Our movement, however, needs nothing of respectability politics. Accepting — conceding, surrendering, submitting to — that will only erode our movement until it crumbles entirely. Respectability politics is what’s gotten us into reliance on foundations and nonprofits, and elected officials and bureaucrats, and policies and programs that only benefit the most privileged and resourced members of our communities at the direct expense of the most marginalized. Radical, militant anger — and radical, militant hope, and radical, wild dreams, and radical, active love — that’s what’ll get us past the death machines of ableism and capitalism and white supremacy and laws and institutions working overtime to kill us.
Anger is a necessary rhetorical and strategic tool.
“stop telling people not to be angry.
anger can absolutely be transformative. none of our movements would happen without it. anger can help reveal what is most important to us and give us a kind of clarity that few other emotions can.
anger is fire and fire is powerful. we can channel anger in useful & accountable ways.”
— Mia Mingus
I do not believe in even attempting to appease the impossible, asymptoptic standards of respectability politics and (white, abled, cis, masculine-centric) professionalism simply because such attempts will always and inevitably be doomed to fail.
stimpunks·autistichoya.com·
One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood
Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.
stimpunks·theatlantic.com·
FIRST PERSON | I've spent my whole life pretending to be non-disabled | CBC Radio
Abi Oyewole felt she had to hide her non-visible disabilities because people assumed she was faking them.
stimpunks·cbc.ca·
Why Disabled Americans Can’t Take Their Right To Vote For Granted
Don’t disabled Americans already have the right to vote? It seems like an easy question to answer — of course they do! Or they should have. But the whole subject of disabled people and voting is more complex than it might appear at first.
Lilian Aluri, #RevUp Voting Campaign Coordinator at the American Association of People with Disabilities cites two related ideological beliefs that discourage and prevent disabled people from voting. One is the notion that disabled people shouldn’t be allowed to vote. The other is the idea that voting processes should be at least somewhat difficult and exacting, as a way of ensuring that only the most informed and committed citizens vote. “This belief hides a very pernicious idea of who deserves to vote,” says Aluri, “and is rooted in barely masked racism and ableism.”
stimpunks·www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org·A capabilities approach to understanding and supporting autistic adulthood
Nature Reviews Psychology - The focus on functional deficits in conventional autism research constrains understanding of autistic lives. In this Review, Pellicano et al. appraise research on...
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Studies of autism tend to exclude women, researchers find
Most studies of autism enroll small numbers of women or exclude them altogether, according to a study from MIT. Researchers find a screening test commonly used to determine eligibility for studies of autism consistently winnows out a much higher percentage of women than men.
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