Tania Melnyczuk
Evidence-based therapy often lacks key evidence
One key piece of evidence is missing from many therapies and treatments imposed on autistic people: evidence of support by patients.
Tony Breu is doing my homework for me!
My homework for Project K requires me to explain (inter alia) why hypomagnesaemia must be dealt with if we hope to treat hypokalaemia, which causes sensory overstimulation. And I have to include citations.
How not to fight the stigma of disability
Disabled people, woah.
You don’t fight the stigma of disability by showing off how non-disabled you are.
That makes it worse for people who can’t do what you can do, and it also makes it worse for you if you crack and lose the basis of your misplaced self-esteem.
Be happy about your abilities. I am.
Celebrate your workarounds. I do.
Be proud of overcoming obstacles to achieve something which non-disabled people take for granted. I am.
But don’t do any of this just to prove that you are “worthy”. You were always worthy.
