Autism News, 2017/07/16

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Law enforcement news:

• David M. Perry on the criminalization of schoolchildren’s meltdowns


• And (same reporter) on police violence in Chicago and being black and disabled


• A new report says 1 in 5 autistic young people in Ontario have interacted with the police in the last 18 months. In a third of those interactions, the police made things worse.

Media and reviews:

• John Wiswell reminds us that evil isn’t a disability


• Kelly Robson on why her futures include disability

Australian politics:

• Karen R Fisher and Sally Robinson unpack the role of disability in the Australian census


• An Australian politician raised eyebrows by saying that all autistic students should be segregated

Canadian politics:

• The first ever Disability Pride parade in British Columbia, Canada:


• The Human Rights Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Canada, says that most of the complaints they receive are about accessibility


• Andrew Russell and Brian Hill on how Canada’s immigration system discriminates against disabled immigrants and their families

Jobs:

• M. Kelter interviews Art Shectman about Ultra Testing, a tech firm that hires autistic employees


• Another company, EY, is also getting into the business of autistic hiring

On stereotypes and prejudice:

• Pascale Tosquano on the ideas of special treatment and positive stereotyping


• Martha Rose Saunders explains in great depth how all of the diagnostic criteria for autism can apply to a person who doesn’t “look [stereoptyically] autistic“


• Kerima Cevik on how people can pay lip service to acceptance while still insisting that they don’t have to accept their own child


• Real Social Skills on how a stereotype can be both positive and dehumanizing

Misc:

• Sonia Boue on autistic leadership


• A new study says autistic people make certain kinds of comparisons more rationally than NTs


• There is a new word for autism in Maori

Sad Things:

• Montgomery Cal on why disabled people in the US are protesting the proposed removal of Medicaid


• Kris Guin on being autistic, LGBT, and homeless

Comments

[conuly]

Lots of great links, thanks!

[rhoda_rants]

*sigh* I love my horror movies, but they have so many problems. The Evil = Crazy trope is just the tip of the iceberg. I loved 10 Cloverfield Lane, and I didn't think of John Goodman's character as anything more complicated than Misogynistic Jerk Who Cannot See Lady-Type As Real Person, but Wiswell's interpretation is valid. I am thrilled to find someone else who hated Don't Breathe though. Ugh, that movie pissed me off.

Cautious recommendation: Hush. Home invasion movie where the protagonist is deaf and kicks the intruders' asses. I haven't seen it yet myself, but I've heard many good things. It's on Netflix. Also, if you haven't seen Stoker yet, that movie is disturbing and wonderful. Although I say that as someone who is comfortable identifying with "villains" (if you can even call this character a villain--it's complicated). (My icon is a screenshot from it.)

I've the Saunders piece before, and I loved it! I've noticed that I exhibit a lot of "symptoms" (characteristics might be a better word?) associated with various things--OCD, Aspbergers, depression/anxiety--without ever being officially diagnosed. I've taken a few online assessment tests and tend to score somewhere in the low 30s, but I don't know how similar those are to the official ones. Diagnoses cost money, y'know? But that's why I'm grateful for articles like this--and for bloggers like you who share them.