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Autism News, 2018/01/27
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