Content note: This article discusses sexual violence and suicide. What is it like to be autistic and bipolar? How can we better support ...
I have developed a very low level but persistent special interest on the seminal Madchester band Happy Mondays. More specifically, I am perversely ...
Content Warning: This essay discusses suicide This month has been a hard month for disabled people, especially when it comes to watching the news. In ...
Annie Waldman’s recent ProPublica feature on ABA therapy reinforces a false and dangerous narrative about autism services, framing Applied Behaviour ...
If you have concerns about vaccines and autism, please know that I’m here to reassure you, and answer your questions. I understand being consumed ...
Both educators and society have work to do in the scope of supporting disabled learners. But how can education and disability policy best serve ...
“I have been Black all my life, but until recently, autism has been my whole reality. I never paid attention to how my Blackness made autism much ...
As an autistic person, I know from personal experience just how critical authentic autism representation is. It was a book that first opened up the ...
Vaccines don’t cause autism. But even if they did, is being like me really a fate worse than death? The autistic brain is not particularly good at ...
This article was originally written in 2014, and updated in March 2025 in response to ant-vax HHS Secretary RFK Jr. asking the CDC to spend precious ...
Content note: This article discusses suicidal ideation I don’t consider myself a particularly private person by nature or nurture. I’m autistic, which ...
As an autistic person, I know from personal experience just how critical authentic autism representation is. It was a book that first opened up the ...