I received a message this morning, letting me know about an article on the FaceBook page of the Department of Education and Training in Queensland’s Autism Hub. The article is upsetting in a number of ways. It contains misinformation, stereotyping, lots of negative language, and lots of blaming autistic people for their parents unhappiness and […]
[image description: a small campfire burning in the dark night. Copyright Sparrow R. Jones, 2017] Everywhere I turn, it seems, someone is calling the current United States presidential administration “crazy” or “insane.” Do you not realize that these are slurs along the lines of The R Word? Do you not realize that everything I have…
Many posts have discussed Trump’s support for the discredited notion that vaccines cause autism. (He also has a bad record on disability issues more generally.) The story that Trump might appoint anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head a presidential commission — whether on vaccines or autism — has provoked widespread reactions.Laurie Garrett writes at Newsday:Given Trump’s interest in Russia, he might be interested to know that the first claims of an association among…
via Autism, Vaccines, and Trump: The Hits Keep Coming — Autism Policy and Politics
By inclination, I’m a bit of an imp. I will say a true thing (I’m nonbinary) in a slightly silly way, messing with people using truth. (“Good man. Wait. Woman.” gets responded to with “still no” followed by “nonbinary, good luck”.) This is a character trait, not an isolated incident. On National Coming Out Day,…
via Party Giraffe, Hot Spicy Autism, and Small Acts of NO. — Yes, That Too
that Bloody Cat 