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Spectrum Gaming was founded by Andy Smith, a 27 year old autistic adult from Bury, Greater Manchester, who after struggling as an autistic person, met other autistic people online who grew to accept their autism diagnosis. He later decided to make it has "Life goal" to make sure that as many autistic young people as possible avoided the ...
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Discrimination against autistic people involves any form of discrimination, persecution, or oppression against people who are autistic. Despite contention over its status as a disability, discrimination against autistic people is considered to be a form of ableism .
Autism rights activists say that "tics, like repetitive rocking and violent outbursts" can be managed if others make an effort to understand autistic people, while other autistic traits, "like difficulty with eye contact, with grasping humor or with breaking from routines", would not require corrective efforts if others were more tolerant.
Autistic supremacism, also referred to as Aspie supremacism (in reference to Asperger syndrome), is an ideological school of thought followed within certain segments of the autism community, suggesting that individuals formerly diagnosed with Asperger syndrome possess superior traits compared to both neurotypical individuals and other autistic ...
The quality of autism-themed TV and the extent of actual autistic representation to be found therein is far from the most pressing issue that autistic people face. And 2021 isn’t measurably ...
It was founded by Stuart Duncan, a web developer in Timmins, Canada whose son is diagnosed with autism, and is known in-game as AutismFather. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Autcraft was created so such children could play their favourite game with others without facing the threat of bullying and discrimination .
Singer's 1998 thesis Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the Autistic Spectrum, [33] wherein she had first coined the term neurodiversity, was republished as Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea in September 2017. [34] Pablo is a British pre-school children's TV program about an autistic boy. It was first aired in October 2017.