Dear Members of the Local Public School Board, To learn is to feed my soul, to read is to feed my mind. The easiest thing I do in the course of my day is to read newspapers that my parents leave scattered on every hard surface of our otherwise spotless kitchen. Most reading I do…
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What If We’ve Been Wrong About “Profound” Autism?
In the war for attention, funding, and autonomy among autistic people and caregivers, there are various armies. There are the autistic self-advocates (SAs), who have been loud in demanding a seat at the Internet and policymaking tables. In addition to condemning Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) (a widely-adoped, oftentimes relentless therapy for training autistic people to…