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The Concept of Neurodiversity Is Dividing the Autism Community

By Simon Baron-Cohen — 2019

It remains controversial—but it doesn’t have to be. We need to embrace both the neurodiversity model and the medical model to fully understand autism.

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Autism Adulthood: Insights and Creative Strategies for a Fulfilling Life

One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is their looming adulthood and all that it entails.

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We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Golem Girl: A Memoir

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that...

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Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum

Bringing together a collection of narratives from those who are on the autism spectrum whilst also identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA), this book explores the intersection of the two spectrums as well as the diverse experiences that come with...

Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney

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How Telling Our Silenced Stories Can Change the World | Anne Hallward | TEDxDirigo

Shame is at the intersection of individual psychology healing and social change. Clinically, when we follow the path of our shame, we experience the greatest healing, and culturally, when we move past the power of shame we can act together to improve civil rights for all.

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Ask a Therapist: Is There a Connection Between Neurodiversity and the LGBTQIA+ Community?

The short answer, yes and no. This is a question I get REGULARLY, and honestly never knew how to answer it.

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Trans 101: Neurodiversity

This video was written, filmed, and edited by trans/gender diverse young people.

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The Full Spectrum: What’s It Like to Be Gay and Autistic?

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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

In this webinar, Eileen Crehan, Ph.D., orients listeners to concepts and terms, and the state of science relating to sexual orientation and gender identity in autism.

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