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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson opened up about her struggles into parenthood, particularly as the mother of an autistic child, in her new memoir. The passage in “Lovely One ...
An autistic man has spent more than 10 years behind bars under joint enterprise laws for murder after his friend stabbed a man to death during a fight. For Alex Henry’s family, their lives ...
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 ...
Central to the autism rights movement's beliefs is the right to self-determine if one is part of the autism community, that autistic people should be seen as the primary voice for people with autism, and that autistic people have the final say in what language should be used when talking about autism.
Autistic individuals are often victims of violence, including bullying, abuse, sexual assault and criminal acts. [1] Violence can be physical or verbal, [2] as illustrated by the frequent use of the word "autistic" as an insult. [3] [4] Autistic people, like many people with disabilities, are often victims of hate crimes, and many live in fear. [5]
Despite the growing diagnosis of autism, which has been estimated to affect more than 2 million children and teens across the country, experts and advocates have bemoaned glaring gaps in services ...
Lydia X. Z. Brown (born 1993) is an American autistic disability rights activist, writer, attorney, and public speaker who was honored by the White House in 2013. [1] They are the chairperson of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Disability Rights Committee.
A mother of a toddler with autism says justice has been extremely difficult to come by since a day care worker hit her son on the head three times with a plastic bucket. More than six months have ...