[Image description: Q with a big tooth-missing grin, his eyes closed and his arms folded behind his head. His green shirt features a rainbow symbol and the words ‘Noncompliant AF.’ We got this shirt from the Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Library, proceeds went to support ADAPT]
Autism Acceptance Cram School
this is where I am storing my notes. For now, it’s just parked here as an unpolished pile of…stuff for patreon supporters.
I ran out of time this year, so I’ll clean them up….another time.
What is the Social Model of Disability?
Acceptance v. Awareness (negativity)
- [death > living with disability], we’ll talk about disability day of mourning below
- We are the Antivaxx boogeyman
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- Samantha Bee still: “Don’t treat autistic people like their existence is worse than a pandemic.”
- insufferably intolerant science nerd (autistic, was preemie with complications thanks to catching easy preventable virus) has lots of posts about this
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- Presents in our socially acceptable language as slurs
- Non-disability & Luck: Neurodefiant: Gratitude & luck
- Accommodations are not restraints
Destigmatizing Autism
You Don’t Look Autistic
What autism really is
For newbies, recently diagnosed
What is neurodiversity?
Is Autism a disability?
3 Reasons To Say ‘Disability’ instead of ‘Special Needs’
Trope of super-power/gift/differently-abled to erase systemic ableism & obstacles
Evil crip & inspiration porn – two sides of the same supremacist coin, we’ll talk about victims & saviors below
destigmatizing disability book collection
Centering Autistic Voices
Presuming Competence
- Brooklyn Becky, white autistics in black spaces & avoiding accountability
- boys will be boys
- Neurotribes – Indigenous appropriation, unnecessary racial slurs, erasure of autistics of color
- Infantilizing adults with disabilities, paternalism (hard and soft)
- See disabled folks as innocent, oblivious, and good-natured doofs
Getting shut down screenshots – for being too autistic to self-advocate
Abled Saviors
Disability rights history
- Drunk history – see comments for additional history
- Amy Rowley
- ADAPT (BFL supports)ADAPT
- ADA
- IDEA
#OwnVoices
- Kassiane Asasumasu, Radical Neurodivergence Speaking
- Lei Wiley-Mydske (she)
- Giraffe Party
- Tracy Garza – Transgender Law center
- Nai Damato – Trauma work, Blind, Autistic
- Shain Neumeier (They) Attorney
- Lisa J. Ellwood – (She) Bipolar, Lenape, Nanticoke https://twitter.com/IconicImagery, the right kind of brown
- Corinne Duyvis (she)- Writer, Disability In Kidlit (now archived), creator of #OwnVoices
- Lydia X.Z. Brown (they)- Attorney, public speaker, writer, AWNN, BFL supports on patreon, transracial adoptee, AAPI
- Kerima Cevik (She) – Parent & civil rights, Intersected, Brave
- Morénike Giwa Onaiwu (she) HIV rights advocate, parent, speaker, activist, AWNN
- Cynthia Kim – She, Stimtastic, writer (Musings of an Aspie), AWNN, transparency: donated for Markel’s group home
- Kris Guin – Queerability – http://queerability.tumblr.com/
- The Black Autist
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Finn Gardener – Manages Spectrum Boston, http://expectedly.org/new/welcome/
- Kayla BeingMe Smith – Youtube, Facebook
- Reyma McCoy McDeid
- Invisible Strings
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna
- Parenting Autistic Children with Love & acceptance (FB page)
- Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
- Nick Walker
- See Autistic, Typing’s list of Autistic People of Color to Follow
- Harriet Tubman Collective (not-autism specific, but for disabled activists of color)
- Autistic Academic
- Brave
- Neurobeautiful
- Oswin Latimer
- Stimtastic – Autistic owned & operated stim toys
- Boycott Autism Speaks
- Spectrum Disordered
- Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library
- Real Social Skills
- Tone it down taupe
- Respectfully Connected
- The Black Autist
- Occupy The Judge Rotenburg Center
- We Are like Your child
- The Autism Wars
- Intersected
- Allism Shouts
- The Bullshit Fairy
- Brilliant Fish NYC
- The Neurotypical Wife
- Shain M. Neumeier
FB Pages (autistic run)
- We Are Like Your Child
- The Autism Wars
- Ollibean
- Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
- The Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- Neurodivergencia Latina
- Autonomous Press
- Reyma McCoy McDeid
- Autistic Allies – Group
- Neurodiversity Librarians – Group for Neurodiversity Librarians
- AspiGirl (French, so I’ll excuse the aspi-language) but mostly because the comic is hilarious.
- Hannah Gadsby
- Ask me, I’m autistic
- Neurodefiant
- Autistic, Typing – Run by an Indigenous Autistic person
- Autistics Speaking Day
- Aikido Shusekai – Dojo located in Berkely, CA, autistic-run & autistic friendly for adults & kids 7+
- Radical Neurodivergence Speaking
- Lydia X.Z. Brown / Autistic Hoya
- Respectfully Connected
- The MacDonald Autistic Pride and Neurodiversity Lending Library (Boston-based, white Autistic mother).
- Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library (Washington-based, Autistic mom of color)
- Divergent Feminism– spinoff from AWNN, ” The project is run exclusively by disabled women and nonbinary people of varying identities and disabilities. “
- Neurodivergent Teacher
- Greta Thunberg
- Paper Boat Autism Acceptance Library
- Better ways than ABA
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Exploitation & how stigma creates profits
Support Groups
The danger of allistic-parent run & centered spaces
I haven’t visited these groups in a loooong time, and groups tend to turn toxic quick (or die out from admin burnout) so vet carefully
For parents of Autistic kids, run by Autistic adults
For Librarians, run by Autistic librarians
Neurodiversity Librarians
For BIPOC Autistic People
This exists, but it’s a secret group and members need to be vetted. Reach out to me if you’re an autistic person of color who would like to join.
Intersectionality
Race
- Unjust imprisonment of Darius McCollum & lack of viral action
- Markel’s lack of viral action compared to David
- #AutisticWhileBlack & #DisabilityTooWhite
- Moreinke, Lydia, AWNN
- Black Neurodivergent Excellence – Finn Gardener
Gender
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autism = toxic masculinity (JER) NOPE NOPE NOPE
- Netflix atypical, Sheldon Cooper, etc.
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will touch on masking for exposure anxiety/emotional labor, increased rates of suicidality in passing autistic women, nonbinary folks & femmes
- Ramp Your Voice & Vilissa Thompson (transparency: BFL supports on Patreon), Kerima Cevik’s interview
Class
- Single parents, accessibility, education segregation
- homeschooling
Ageism
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Autistic adults exist
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You’re not like my child
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The cliff (and who creates it)
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36 Average age to die (source?)
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/premature-mortality-in-autism-spectrum-disorder/4C9260DB64DFC29AF945D32D1C15E8F2 (Swedish study, published in British journal, divided into perceptions of intelligence)
Multiply disabled
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Video by Deaf Autistic – where did that go?
- Sins Invalid
Sexuality
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[Many] Autistics have sex!
- Stereotype of all autistics as asexual
- Helen Hoang
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Lack of sexual education for autistics
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7x victims of sexual abuse
- Discuss ABA & compliance grooming later
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WI: exponential challenges
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AWNN Autistic people of color fund (BFL supports)
Divide & Destroy
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nonspeaking = noncommunicating, IRONY given how much value allistics put into body language
- Roses Are Red For Autism
- KaylieSpeaks
- Ben B.
- Faith, Hope, and Love with Autism
- Splines
- Didn’t someone do a tendril comic about this?
- Unhooking & processing patience
- Executive functioning
- Language matters, understand the importance of being pedantic
- Not mind readers
- Denying AAC/Screens/sign language
- LOUD HANDS
- Exposure Anxiety
- Masking
- Scripts & mimicry
Sensory Processing
- Stigmatizing & shaming stim toys
- Not okay to tell us to get over it
- Spoons – Phileas’s fortune
- Meltdowns & how to support
Inclusion
The Impact of Ableism
- my gift is my time
- masking
- Allistic nonsense roundup
- Tone policing: allies asking for patience
- Know your place
- Getting credit – there is no fucking committee, Screenshot of that dude who wants more credit, note on Stuart Ablon lecture
- unpolished list – social anxiety
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Stimming, Stimtastic
- Toneitdown taupe
- why johnny doesn’t flap
- The NT wife
Current Threats
Parental/Educator Fragility
- https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/28/invisible-abuse-aba-and-the-things-only-autistic-people-can-see/
- https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/27/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in/
- I abused children and so do you (find htat link somewhere)
- Stop the Shock (due by 4/24): See ASAN event page
- Lydia’s JRC
- Aftereffect series
- Disability day of mourning
- Please don’t murder us
- Autism speaks video of mom explaining murder-suicide in front of her daughter
- Eugenics