Illusion of Competence

[This post was originally published on the ASAN blog .] Let me present to you a sequence of events. On March 6th, a 22-year-old autistic man...

[I've been asked to put a disclaimer on this post letting people know that they can repost it as part of the blogaround on the subject o...

I used to blog a lot. Since the TPGA dialogues I... haven't, so much. I would like to again. So to get back in the habit of throwing new...

Originaly published on the Navigating College blog I became politically aware when I learned how to say “I don’t understand.” This didn’t ha...

NTs with Big Ideas: We decided to create this autism-related service/ make this autism-related documentary / write this autism-related poli...

It’s amazing how much two people can disagree when they start from the same premise. Rob Rummel-Hudson’s blog post on the movie “The Change-...

(GREAT BIG WARNING: This post deals exclusively with parents who murder their disabled children, and the ableism in media coverage of these ...

(WARNING: This post talks about internalized ableism and suicidal thoughts) When people hate themselves for having difficulties that I also ...

(WARNING: this post discusses child abuse) We are two weeks into Autism Awareness Month and I count three casualties so far. Two stories in ...

I've been noticing something that's been bothering me a lot, and that is the way the phrases "autism community" and "...

[Trigger warning for discussion of (historical) violence against disabled people.] Finals week was a weird time to be knocked down by histor...

So I think I've mentioned before that I deal with a lot of guilt due to the amount of late work I turn in in my classes, or the fact tha...

One of the attitudes about autism that really bothers me is the idea that autistic people are divided into neat little groups that have noth...