Alexithymia and Autism: When everyone is speaking a different language

Sonny Hallettmedium.com/@sonyahallettAn attempt to figure out and convey a feeling from a couple of years ago.[image: Drawing of a half-Chinese, half-white person withmedium-short Blond hair swept back from their face, wearingglasses, and looking over...

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What the College Admissions Scandal Reveals About Privilege Inequality For Disabled Students

Photo © US Department of Education  | Creative Commons / Flickr[image: Three students at computer workstations, seen from behind.]Shannon RosaSenior EditorWealthy people using their privilege to bypass regular people problems like paying taxes is...

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Inspiration Porn: How the Media and Society Objectify Disabled People

Photo via Time. [image: Florida State football player Travis Rudolph, a Black man with short natural hair, eating pizza in a school cafeteria at a table with a white boy with very short red hair and glasses, who is seen from behind.]Kit Meadkpagination.wordpress.comA...

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Inter-Views: A Typing-Only Podcast Listening Party

Adam Wolfond[image: A young teenage boy with brilliant brown hair sitting on the beach.]Adam Wolfondsoundcloud.com/awolfondI have a podcast called Inter-Views. My first podcast was an interview with artist Ellen Bleiwas. Ellen collaborates with me in...

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Meltdowns: How Autistic Humans Experience Crises

Sonny Hallett medium.com/@sonyahallettThis post is about what meltdowns feel like to me, what impacts they’ve had, and what I’m learning about them. Other autistic people may have very different experiences, but if you are autistic yourself, I hope...

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The quest for autism’s causes, and what it reveals about all of us

Emily WillinghamKnowable MagazineAs alarm grew over autism prevalence at the turn of this century, there was much public talk of a growing “epidemic.” That language has since softened, and it is now clear that many autistic people were there all along,...

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