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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization run by and for individuals on the autism spectrum. ASAN advocates for the inclusion of autistic people in decisions that affect them, including: legislation, depiction in the media, and disability services.
Loud Hands was designed to be a "transmedia project", that is, one that uses "multiple forms of content--written words, videos, visual art, the internet, and more". [10] The project was launched in December 2011 as crowdfunding campaign to create an anthology of essays written by autistic people. [ 6 ]
I Am Autism is a short video that personifies autism as a narrative voice, which compares itself to several life-threatening diseases [96] and makes the false claim [97] of causing divorce. [98] [99] Sounding the Alarm is a documentary exploring the transition to adulthood and the cost of lifetime care. It was criticized by the Autistic Women ...
Citizen Autistic is a 2013 documentary film directed by William Davenport exploring the advocacy work of autism rights activists. [1] [2] Citizen Autistic features interviews with autistic activists including Ari Ne'eman, co-founder and former president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, and Zoe Gross, creator of the Disability Day of Mourning annual vigils held in honor of filicide ...
Ari Daniel Ne'eman (/ n eɪ ə ˈ m ɑː n /; born December 10, 1987) is an American disability rights activist and researcher who co-founded the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2006. [1]
The movie features interviews with autistic persons and their families, as well as with Ari Ne'eman, who is the founder of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and also serves on U.S. President Barack Obama's National Council on Disability.
Kayla Smith, who is autistic, joined Twitter about five years ago, just hoping to "find some people". Now, she has nearly 12,000 followers. She's called out representation issues on podcasts ...
ANI was started by Jim Sinclair, Kathy Grant, and Donna Williams in 1992. [1] The advocacy group is organized by autistic people for autistic people. [2] ANI started out as a pen pal group, but when they first met in person, "they felt a sense of belonging, of being understood, of having the same concepts and sharing a language, of being normal."