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What the research says about my experience

I’ve spent the week out reporting a complicated story in Southern Utah — one that required a whole lot of time in the car. Today, driving the four hours back to the closest airport, I listened to a set of podcasts that started me thinking about what we’re actually talking about, and around, when we talk about what happened between Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Nick Walker, PhD A number of autistic authors have written critiques of person-first language in the past, beginning with Jim Sinclair’s “Why I Dislike Person First Language” in 1999. While these previous critiques have articulated excellent points with which I’m largely in agreement, I haven’t been entirely satisfied with them; I’ve yet to encounter

Nick Walker, PhD I wrote "Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms & Definitions" back in 2014. So far, of all the pieces I’ve written, this is the one that’s been most frequently cited in other people’s work (academic and otherwise). The definitive, citable version of this essay, along with supplementary comments, can be found in my book

Rest is a luxury for the rich. I get up at 6AM, go to school (I have a full courseload, but I only have to go to two in-person classes) then work, then I get the kids, then I pick up my husband, th…

Why We Stan A Post-Racism Queen. A new essay on my new project, essaying. Live now. If you are an OG tressiemc.com subscriber - you got this delivered to your inbox along with a free Substack subscription as a thank you.

“If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem…

I’ve been studying Polyvagal Theory (PVT) from primary sources and secondary summaries for about 5 years. This framework has allowed me to make sense of my own trauma symptoms and befriend my nervous…

All new guest essay from @DisVisibility by @RebeccaCokleyMy Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization https://t.co/mCTYDmu7EV (+alt text) pic.twitter.com/1fZqRjDLG8— Alice Wong 王美華 (@SFdirewolf) March 14, 2022

When we think about accessibility, we tend to do so in terms of spaces. The first, and sometimes the only, question we ask is: can people…

RBG characterized Justice and Mercy as Very Grand Emotions. This led to an epiphany about the difference between autistic and neurotypical emotions.

A personal essay about imagining Black futures as a way of escaping a terrifying present and creating a more just society.

Lauren Melissa Ellzey is multiracial and autistic. She always felt that the world divided her into what was Black or white, autistic or not. She encourages mixed race autistic teens to see and embrace their whole authentic selves.

TLDR: No. The paradigm of behaviorism going back to BF Skinner…denies, dismisses, trivializes, or simply writes off the whole idea of inner experience and looks only at behavior, the actions on the…

Hi.  I'm Chris, and I work as an autism Associate for NDTi, and with NHS teams as an Expert by Experience for care and treatment re...

Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can take place. The ten stages of genocide are; classification, symbolisation, discrimination, dehumanisation, organisation, polarisation, preparation, persecution, extermination, and denial.

A Field Guide for Journalists, Educators, Doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism.

The proportion of females whose ASD diagnosis is missed is unknown. The ratio of males to females with ASD is generally quoted as 4:1, though it is believed that there are biases preventing females from being diagnosed and that the true ratio is lower. These biases have not been clearly identified or quantified. Starting with a clinical dataset of 1711 children <18 years old, four different methods were employed in an inductive study to identify and quantify the biases and calculate the proportion of females missed. A mathematical model was constructed to compare the findings with current published data. The true male-to-female ratio appears to be 3:4. Eighty percent of females remain undiagnosed at age 18, which has serious consequences for the mental health of young women.

“Our movements themselves have to be healing, or there's no point to them” —Cara Page, Kindred: Southern Healing Justice Collective   Everyone I know longs for healing. It's just hard

Fight to heal, heal to fight