Autism News, 2018/01/27

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More from Rose Lemberg’s “Writing While Autistic” series:

• On autistic inertia


• On giving oneself permission to write – and permission not to write  (This one hit me especially hard; in fact, I have been changing aspects of how I schedule my time because of it and the conversations that came out of it.)


• On identity

Media and Reviews:

• Lydia Brown calls for a boycott of “To Siri, With Love”  (The article also ends with a great list of intersectional disability organizations that are taking donations.)


• Derek Budryk reviews “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”


• Elizabeth Bartmess on autistic-compatible plots (This was inspired by my “Mouse” review. 😀 )


• Ceillie Simkiss talks about cure tropes in “A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet”

Posts about treatments (and “treatments”):

• Alyssa Hillary on why you shouldn’t take away a communication device that someone is stimming with


• Reid Knight on why food restrictions as a treatment for autism are damaging


• Shain Neumeier on a new drug that can track when the patient takes it, and why this is a bad thing


• Kerima Çevik on the history of forced sterilization, and why Judith Newman’s musings in “To Siri, With Love” about sterilizing her son are especially horrifying for Black parents

Pan-disability stuff:

• Alaina Leary on how to support disabled loved ones during the winter holidays


• Cheri A. Blauwet on being both a wheelchair user and a medical doctor


• ASAN statement on Medicaid work requirements in the US


• Emily Morson on why disabled people are never sure how much to push themselves. (This article is from a year ago, but I read it in late December, and it’s been SUCH an eye-opener for me and my disabled friends IRL that I’m breaking my usual rule and posting it anyway.) 


• Elliot Kukla on how he learned to be interdependent 

Science:

• Autistic girls struggle more with routine tasks than autistic boys, even when they are matched for the apparent clinical severity of their symptoms


• Bilingual autistic children are better at task switching

Comments

[sovay]

a new drug that can track when the patient takes it

What the hell. No. Nothing about that is a good idea. Unless the data is limited to the person who takes the medication—unless it is being used solely by them to help them keep track of their regime—that's a level of surveillance that is just not appropriate.