Identifying Good People and Avoiding Bad People: How Can an Autistic Person Stay Safe?

Photo © Dee Teal | Flickr/Creative Commons license[image: Blonde white teen girl whispering into the earof an adult white woman with long brown hair and bangs.]Maxfield Sparrowunstrangemind.comIt started as a tweet from @frogautistic to my friend,...

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Authoring Our Own Lives: How Autistics and the World Benefit from Auti-Biography

Maxfield Sparrowunstrangemind.comPhoto © barbara w | Flickr/Creative Commons[image: Hands on a typewriter keyboard, at a sunny wooden desk, next to a drink on a crocheted white doily, amidst some plucked green leaves.]The last decade has seen a blossoming...

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Fast Learners Are Not Better Than Other People

Finn Gardinerexpectedly.org(Content warning: ableist slurs.)Photo © U.S. Department of Education | Flickr/Creative Commons[image: Three schoolchildren of different races, sitting together in a classroom reading corner, reading books.]It is not nice to...

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The Taxonomy of Plants: A Tale of Multi-Generational Autistics

Hannah Kingmystinkybackpack.blogspot.caGRANDPAIf you wanted to talk to my grandpa, plant taxonomy was a good opener. He would take us for long walks in the forests of North Jersey. Be quiet now, don’t scare the wildlife.“What kind of plant is that, Grandpa?”...

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Why To Siri With Love Is a Wrecking Ball of a Book

Maxfield Sparrowunstrangemind.com[Content note: possible triggers include: forcible sterilization of minorities including Autistic people, forcible gynecological experimentation on minorities, Judge Rotenberg Center, electric shock, stereotypes about...

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