Read more about Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) as well as autism, non-speaking autism, presuming competence, and seclusion and restraint.
Moving Together: Social Motor Synchrony in Autistic Peer Partners Depends on Partner and Activity Type | SpringerLink
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Some suggest autistic people display impaired Interpersonal Synchrony. However, partners of different neurotypes can struggle to connect and...
Stories from across the “double rainbow” – Autistic and Living the Dream
General content warnings: abuse, neglect, suicide ideation, mental health, transphobia, death, substance use, ableism. These are the two versions of my MRes (Masters in Research) dissertation, clic…
With the pandemic and a global uprising against racial injustice to be explained away, conspiracy communities are bleeding into each other, merging into one gigantic mass of suspicion.
Tracing America's Covid vaccine conspiracies to autism fearmongering
Anti-vaxxers are now melding with anti-democratic extremists. But this movement's roots can be traced to men like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and their autism falsehoods.
Sexual Minority Identities in Autistic Adults: Diversity and Associations with Mental Health Symptoms and Subjective Quality of Life | Autism in Adulthood
“My whole life has been a process of finding labels that fit”: A Thematic Analysis of Autistic LGBTQIA+ Identity and Inclusion in the LGBTQIA+ Community | Autism in Adulthood
The Gender-Diversity and Autism Questionnaire: A Community-Developed Clinical, Research, and Self-Advocacy Tool for Autistic Transgender and Gender-Diverse Young Adults | Autism in Adulthood
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed the diagnosis of “homosexuality” from the second edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This resulted after comparing competing theories, those that pathologized ...
Fernand Deligny | The Arachnean and Other Texts – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
The originality of Deligny’s theoretical and practical position consists precisely in what can be called a “suspension of interpellation,” in which one can also see a fundamental …
Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny
Fernand Deligny rejected psychiatric categories of thought around autism, and embraced instead ways of thinking around states of being, and wandering lines....
my attempt at praxis, whatever tf that meansFeaturing: @DaintyFunk, @COLORMIND.mp4, @victorythecreator, @BellamyJay, and @BABILA. Support my work on patreo...
"And as pride month comes to a close, and as it does every year, I am left with the same question that haunts me every year. Am I queer enough? Will I ever be queer enough?"
Neuroqueer: An introduction to theory - Emergent Divergence
This article was Co-Authored by David Gray-Hammond, Katie Munday, and Tanya Adkin The emergence and popularisation of Neuroqueer theory in the contemporary disability rights discourse and Autistic rights movement represents a significant step forward. Not only does it encourage pride in ones true self, but it emancipates the Neurologically Queer from the normative attitudes that
The link between autism and Queerness - Emergent Divergence
The other day I live recorded a podcast episode about neurodivergence and queerness. In it, we discussed the fact that Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people are more likely to be Queer/2SLGBTQIA+. The discussion was very good, and we really got into some of our experiences. It's no secret that Queerness is a significant intersection with