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Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community
Recent public discussions suggest that there is much disagreement about the way autism is and should be described. This study sought to elicit the views and preferences of UK autism community members – autistic people, parents and their broader support network – about the terms they use to describe autism.
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Understanding of The Disability Rights Movement: On The Washington Post’s Neurodiversity Article
I just read “How autistic adults banded together to start a movement,” Sandhya Somashekhar’s Washington Post article on the neurodiversity movement. While I was reading it, I realized...
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Rewriting The History of Autism
How newly discovered documents show that the work of a crucial autism researcher was ignored, perpetuating misinformation about autistic children. By Elon Green.
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What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?
How a missing inner monologue affects the sense of self. By Claire Cameron.
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The Invisible Women With Autism
Misdiagnosed and misunderstood, autistic women and girls frequently struggle to get the support they need. By Apoorva Mandavilli.
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Were geniuses like Andy Warhol and Albert Einstein mentally ill?
There’s a fine line, it is said, between genius and insanity. But do the two always go hand in hand? In her new book, “Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder,” Claudia Kalb examines 12 historic figures through the lens of today’s knowledge of mental illnesses... By Larry Getlen.
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Toward a Pathology of the Possessed
Schizophrenia’s effects are often discussed in metaphors. What is it like to live with those metaphors? By Esmé Weijun Wang.
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My Autistic Brother’s Quest for Love
He’s still searching. By Danielle Bacher.
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Autism–It’s Different in Girls
New research suggests the disorder often looks different in females, many of whom are being misdiagnosed and missing out on the support they need
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What Does it Mean to ‘Look Autistic?’
A writer’s reflections on the pain of “passing” for neurotypical. By M.Nicole.R.Wildhood.
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Why Blind People Are Better at Math
Bernard Morin developed glaucoma at an early age and was blind by the time he was six years old. Despite his inability to see, Morin went on to become a master topologist... By Diana Kwon.
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Contrast Study
When Leslie Kendall Dye's mother woke up after a massive brain bleed, she wasn't the same mother.
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Not all there: My mother's lobotomy
I learned about my mother's lobotomy when I was 25, maybe 26. I'm still trying to make sense of it. By Mona Gable.
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What It’s Like to Hear Voices in Your Head Every Day
Rai hears roughly 13 different voices, but she doesn’t let them get in the way of her life. By Louise Donovan.
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If you were an elephant …
… the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place – and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person. Charles Foster, the author of Being a Beast explains all.
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My sudden synaesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colours
Vanessa Potter unexpectedly lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled and hearing and touch changed the way she saw the world.
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When Silence is a Plea Bargain
On life as a stutterer. By Parker Carroll.
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Infiltrating the Flat Earth International Conference
Red Ice TV
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When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion
The author on her love for ‘The Prisoner,’ her pilgrimage to the town where it was filmed, and the pressure she felt as an autistic person to downplay the intensity of her interests. By Sarah Kurchak.
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The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion
Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.
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