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Over the past few months, I was involved in an editing dispute on Wikipedia involving the efficacy of facilitated communication (FC) and Rapid Prompting Method (RPM).

What began with one contentious edit has now resulted in the deletion of the

… Read more “FC, RPM, and How Wikipedia Became Complicit in Silencing Non-speaking Autistics”

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Autistic people, adults and children, are infantilized, gaslighted, and manipulated regularly by society– individuals and institutions.

gaslighting
=&0=& is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted

… Read more “50 Ways Society Gaslights and Stonewalls Autistic People”