Where the autistic rights movement IS the news!
I write this piece in the middle of the night in my parents’ east Toronto home during the summer 2020 heat- and pandemic-wave. Weeks earlier, my spouse kicked me out of our cramped apartment with words carefully calculated to kill our marriage: “you’re nothing but a drain on me.” He was technically correct: My four-figure …
A white teenager has avoided jail after forcing an autistic black boy to kiss his shoes in a horrific video shared online. The 17-year-old was arrested after the shocking footage from June was put on social media and watched by more than one million people. The boy and a girl, 17, were charged with racially aggravated …
Desperate to know how her autistic son Ryan was coping after being detained for years in an NHS mental health hospital, Sharon Clarke dialled the telephone number for the ward again, struggling to understand why she couldn’t get through – she had no idea then that both her and her husband’s telephone numbers had been …
As with every other civil rights movement, the fight for disability rights is one that challenges negative attitudes and pushes back against oppression. But it is also more complex. Often the movement has diverged into a constellation of single-issue groups that raise awareness of specific disabilities. It has also converged into cross-disability coalitions that increasingly …
Philipe Rivera goes by “Flip.” He’s 34 years old and has cerebral palsy. He has a tattoo on his arm, uses a wheelchair, and communicates through a device called a DynaVox. “I also use a head pointer for my personal PC,” Rivera said. “I cannot use my hands. I rely on people to help me …
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With nine more cases this week, 11 staff members and residents at a Jacksonville group home for people with developmental disabilities have tested positive for COVID-19. Arc Jacksonville Executive Director Jim Whittaker told The News Service of Florida on Friday that six residents and three staff members at the Bert Road group home tested positive …
One of the more hopeful developments of an otherwise difficult year is the greater concern for the most vulnerable members of society, often accompanied by the realization that they are treated unfairly or worse by the justice system. And while the attention has so far focused on race and gender, it should also be extended …
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man and his three sons are facing federal charges that they illegally sold a bleachlike chemical mixture as a miracle cure for the new coronavirus and other diseases, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Read more at original source: https://weartv.com/news/local/feds-charge-florida-man-sons-with-selling-fake-coronavirus-cure
In the United States, girls represent only about 20% of autism diagnoses. While boys may simply be more likely to have autism than girls, mental health professionals suspect that girls are also more adroit at suppressing autistic traits, which could prevent their autism from being diagnosed, if it is diagnosed at all, until they are …