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Can I just be a functioning autistic?
My response to ‘Why This “High-Functioning” Autistic Really Wishes You’d Shut Up About High-Functioning Autistics’ (original linked from my post). Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Challenges, Life, Relationships, Society
Tagged advocacy, compassion, dehumanization, leadership, life, relationships, social
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Just say “no” to hate
In Florida it is the homeless that are the problem rather than the fact of people having no place to live and starving in the street. Well, Florida and like 20 other states that criminalize homelessness. Some days I can … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, compassion, dehumanization, kindness, leadership, RAKtivist, social
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When does intervention cross the line from helpful to harmful?
As most of you know, I’ve been asking people to boycott Autism Speaks and their major sponsors such as Home Depot and Toys ‘R’ Us. But I want to know in such matters that I’m making the right stand. As … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Society
Tagged advocacy, autism speaks, leadership, legislators, life
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How do we make people want to change? – Lynne Soraya
Over at her Psychology Today blog, Lynne Soraya asks “How do we make people want to change?” For me the answer is “we don’t”. One of the biggest problems I see today is this epidemic of worrying so much about … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, compassion, kindness, leadership, life
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My position on #BoycottAutismSpeaks
There’s a bit of a debate in the autism community concerning Autism Speaks and today I got pulled into a heated Twitter discussion on it. It’s a bit ironic that a group of people characterized by difficulty communicating with the … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, compassion, leadership, legislators, social
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US Autism Caucus activist directory
Yesterday in a Twitter chat with Lynne Soraya (you can visit Lynne on Twitter or Facebook), several of us were discussing how to compile a directory of the US legislators involved with the Autism Speaks to Washington event. Many of us … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Challenges, Society
Tagged advocacy, autism speaks, Autistic Trigger-Free, caucus, comittee, compassion, congress, leadership, legislators, senate, social
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Paradigms and puzzle pieces
I’ve been lucky enough in my lifetime to witness sweeping cultural changes with respect to race and gender equality. Part of this was the changing larger cultural context of the times in which I grew up and part of it … Continue reading