Illusion of Competence

Autism is a mysterious and puzzling disease, and children who suffer from having been diagnosed with autism are equally puzzling and myste...

[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...

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

So, April is Autism Awareness Month. This is, unsurprisingly, a month dedicated to making neurotypical people (people who don't have aut...