In 2011 one of my friends died after a long chronic illness, and an assault which exacerbated it all. She had sarcoidosis and some other illness which specialists could not figure out, and later also tuberculosis (picked up from a little street kid who slept on her...
I have never met an autistic person who uses a letterboard or keyboard to communicate saying that they were happier when they were only using a few gestures and glances. Parents who deny their children the right to develop the motor skills for communicating in full,...
“They brought this upon themselves. They don’t deserve to get care.” I used to think like this.
Please sign the petition and join the march.
The children are being abused, and we’re all scared. We just handle it differently.
To think that giving children access to communication alone is a solution to abuse, is wrong.
A letter upon hearing of the imminent launch of your book. Content warning: child abuse.
Anti-ableist. Intersectional. Activist. Do those concepts sound political and scary?
How clinical professionals fuel ableism and passively discourage meaningful community support.
If you’re running an autism school or offering therapy, if you’re selling some ‘solution’ that’s supposed to work for autistic children, do actual autistic people say it’s good?
Either the classroom is wrong for the child, or the child is too ill to be in the classroom. If we’re medicating children, it should be to treat the illness for which they’re being kept home or in hospital. We shouldn’t be medicating children for the convenience of the school.