How Much Is Lifelong CPTSD Worth?

Image of Arnaldo Rios Soto, a nonspeakingLatinx autistic young man in a gray hoodiewith crew-cut brown hair and a clean-shaven facesmiling broadly for the camera. CreditMatthew Dietz, Esq. If your child's school staff,  then his residential...

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Power, Disability, and The Realities of Consent

Image of Mu, a Hispanic presenting biracial child at age four with short wavy hair wearing a maroon T-shirt, his headresting on the blue metal rung of the slide he is climbing at one of his favorite playgrounds. Tennis courts can be seen in the background....

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Forcing Friendships Doesn't Equal Autistic Youth Gaining Social Skills

My son's first friendships were with family.[Image of a hug between Mu and his adult big sister. His back is to the camera. His sister is smiling. Posted with the permission of the subjects. Image by their father, Nuri Cevik.]Kerima Çeviktheautismwars.blogspot.com"How...

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Autistic Burnout: An Interview With Researcher Dora Raymaker

Dora Raymaker is a researcher, writer, and artist based in Portland, Oregon. She is co-director of the Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership In Research and Education (AASPIRE) with Christina Nicolaidis. AASPIRE is currently running a pilot study on autistic...

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Stop Claiming Autistic People Who Commit Sex Crimes "Don't Know Any Better"

Photo © Jan Olof Nygren | Creative Commons[image: Cropped photo of a shadow of two people, on grass.A foo t in a woman's black flat shoe is visible on the lower right.]Zack Budryktwitter/@BudrykZackA show that ran as long as Law And...

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Being Hyper-Verbal Is A Real—And Disabling—Autistic Experience

Photo © ePi.Longo | Flickr / Creative Commons[image: Two Vietnamese men, seen from behind, wearing billed caps and squatting asthey have a conversation. The man on the right is gesticulating with his left hand.]M. Kelterwww.TheInvisibleStrings.comContent...

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The Kelsey Honors the 20th Anniversary of Olmstead

Alice Wong, John Marble, and Leroy Moore[image: Stylized photo of an Asian-American woman with bobbed blackhair, a motorized wheelchair, and a bipap mask; a white man with brown hair in an undercut and a mustache & beard; and a Black man with very...

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