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• Kim, the Age of Autism has gotten worse under your leadership

  Kim Rossi runs the blog “the Age of Autism”. She’s a parent of three autistic kids. In the past, AoA was managed by someone without any real connection to the autism community: Dan Olmsted. Sadly, Mr. Olmsted passed away (I very much disagree with what Mr. Olmsted did but I never wished him personal ill). […]

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• Hey Amazon, here’s another autism-treatment book to consider delisting

  As the parent of an autistic child, let me start by saying “Thank You, Amazon, for removing books with harmful fake autism treatments from your offerings.” Seriously. One great example is Kerri Rivera’s book on using bleach to “treat” autism. For readers who don’t know about this, here’s an article on Disability Scoop: Amazon Yanks […]

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• Anti vaccine activists are angry about a new study…and they didn’t even bother to read it

  This is a big piece of what the “vaccines-cause-autism” idea is built on. Really bad analyses. Another study shows up showing that vaccines don’t cause autism. People immediately jump to give talking points to their community: “ignore this study! In fact, it’s just another conspiracy to defraud you!!!!!”* But they know from history, their community […]

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• Yes, there are a lot more adult autistics than commonly thought. The real question is what we do with this information.

  What if I told you that there are a lot more autistics born in the 1980’s than 1 in 10,000. And this isn’t me saying “it’s almost certainly true”. This is fact. I’d hope that one of your first reactions would be, “what should we do with this information to make life better for autistic […]

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• Neurodiversity

  Simply put by example: I feel that my kid shouldn’t have different rights or be afforded less respect just because of disability. Yes, my kid needs a lot of support. Yes, my kid is different. No, my kid shouldn’t have to trade rights away for that support. No, difference doesn’t mean less. What does neurodiversity […]

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