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A comprehensive neuropsychological exploration of human needs, behaviour and motivation by Tomlin Wilding (author and researcher)

What I want to talk about is the lasting effects that occur when autistic people are used as a commodity, a political football, a theoretical argument, as exploitation, when autistic people have to…

National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)

Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) is not just a platform. It’s a philosophy. A history, then, can not just account for the development of the technologies but must also account for the thinking that broug…

This is a list of every English language article opposing ABA. We continue to curate this list periodically to ensure that it is a resource that includes everything there is, all in one place, so i…

Adler-Bolton and Vierkant envision a society transformed by a radical abundance of healthcare

In psychiatry, mental dysfunction is typically framed in relation to models that seek to be continuous with physiology or evolutionary biology and that compare ...

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the ninety-second installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post…

Dr Louise Creechan and guests discuss adaptive music technology & musical theatre roles

Our SpInfodump session for Autistic Pride has got me thinking how great it is to have safe spaces to share our favourite topics, so if you want to infodump today, go ahead in the comments! Want to...

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an entirely new diagnosis in the DSM-5. ARFID replaces "feeding disorder of infancy or early childhood," which was a diagnosis in the DSM-IV restricted to children 6 years of age or younger; ARFID has no such age limitations and it is distinct fro …

Read about France's Les Trente Glorieuses which was a time of massive social cultural and economic change and led to benefits that are integral to...

Les Trente Glorieuses was a thirty-year period of economic growth in France between 1945 and 1975, following the end of the Second World War. The name was first used by the French demographer Jean Fourastié, who coined the term in 1979 with the publication of his book Les Trente Glorieuses, ou la révolution invisible de 1946 à 1975. The term is derived from Les Trois Glorieuses, the three days of revolution on 27–29 July 1830 in France.

Sadopopulism: how America can be governed without policy and with pain. A guide to the logic of the Senate tax plan.Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale Uni...

What does oligarchy mean? In the third episode of "Timothy Snyder Speaks," historian and author Timothy Snyder explores the meaning of oligarchy, where it ca...

“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.

Life is an ecological process. This is the case for all living organisms. In a healthy habitat, organisms experience life as being part of an ecology of care. This is the case irrespective of the s…

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Performative neurodiversity transforms advocacy into individualized, easily marketable products and services that shut down the entire purpose of the movement while turning the focus of neurodiversity onto the companies or the therapists themselves.

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GI, cardiovascular, autonomic and allergic manifestations are significantly more prevalent in EDS patients compared with hospitalized patients without EDS. Physicians should consider EDS in patients with unexplained GI, cardiovascular, autonomic and allergic conditions and exercise precautions when …