Autistic culture.
Autistic culture exists. Humour, hospitality rules, sensory rituals, shared references, evolving language. A community that has been talking to itself for...
Autistic culture exists. Humour, hospitality rules, sensory rituals, shared references, evolving language. A community that has been talking to itself for...
A SPIN is not a hobby. Not a phase. Not restricted interest. It is a mode of engagement that produces our best work and most of our...
We are allowed to be happy. Joy is not a distraction from the work. It is the reason for the work. The joys...
Why we use the word pride and not awareness. The political meaning of the choice. Why the analogy with the gay rights movement...
Many of us are both Autistic and ADHD. The double rainbow. Routine and novelty in the same body. Not a contradiction. The...
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...
Autistic thinking described in its own terms. Bottom-up. Associative. Hyperfocused. Literal. Pattern-seeking. Not the negative space of someone else's...
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...