If you read The Freak Factor, you can’t help but leave it seeing the strengths in the weaknesses of people that others and businesses complain about. The pushover kid is altruistic. The coworker who’s indecisive is cautious. My stubborn father is persistent.
“Regardless, Piper models what it’s like to feel unconditional acceptance and love for an autistic person, without applying any of the arbitrary societal standards that even small children can be conditioned to uphold.”
English professor, advocate for autistics, and author Ralph Savarese responds to ethical concerns regarding Mark Osteen’s review of Savarese’s book, See It Feelingly. The review was published in American Literary History.
A frustrating myth that persists about autism is the notion that those who cannot verbalize their thoughts have none. Simply stating it in this article is enough to make most people cock a skeptical eyebrow, Yet the idea hounds autistic folks, fueling ignorant assumptions about functioning and intellect.
Recommended reading for autistics, but read critically. The story of Jacob Hunt, an 18-year-old autistic man from Townsend, VT accused of murder.
I was assigned An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon for my sci-fi class last semester. Within a few pages of beginning to read, I
#Puppetgate went viral on social media when a UK theatre announced a play with an autistic puppet who looked like the devil’s worst nightmares. On the script…
An #ActuallyAutistic book review of Belinda Bauer’s crime thriller, Rubbernecker, with an autistic protagonist.
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