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Trigger Warning: cure language, filicide With Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes having been released in 2015, it seems that the Neurodiversity Movement had reached a new chapter in its development. As a result, the concept of neurodiversity has slowly permeated into the mainstream media. A great piece of evidence that proves that notion is Lilia Luciano’s …
Trigger Warning: ableism, eugenics, and Autism Speaks “This is generations of children to come that will be diagnosed with autism, and we as a country, and as a world, we have to stop.” Those were the words spoken by Autism Speaks co-founder, Suzanne Wright, during an interview in Nantucket on August 14, 2013. That …
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman and In a Different Key by John Donvan and Caren Zucker are both journalistic accounts of the history of autism, having been released a few months apart in 2015 and 2016. The former’s subtitle is “The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity” while the latter’s is simply “The Story …
Although I’m relatively new to neurodiversity activism, having only started a few months ago, one thing is clear in my research: high-support needs (mostly nonspeaking) autistic individuals are typically underrepresented, marginalized, and dehumanized in the media. Although autistic people are perceived poorly by society in general, it’s clear that high-support needs individuals have gotten the …