On being newly identified as Autistic.
You have not become Autistic. You have always been Autistic. What has changed is that you now have a word for it, and a...
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You have not become Autistic. You have always been Autistic. What has changed is that you now have a word for it, and a...
Why we use the word pride and not awareness. The political meaning of the choice. Why the analogy with the gay rights movement...
Autism is a disability. We are not afraid of that word. The legal frame is how we get adjustments, access, the NDIS, the right to challenge...
We say Autistic person, not person with autism. The preference is not cosmetic. It is political, and the community has been clear for a long...
The clinical world still calls it Autism Spectrum Disorder. We do not. The word disorder is a claim about us, made without...
Autism as a clinical category is younger than people assume. The frame has moved repeatedly. The version in your file depends on who was writing...
A letter to the younger me. The exhaustion was not moral. The seam in the sock was real. Stims were the body...