Social media is confusing for me. Sometimes I’ll post something vulnerable and a 40-year-old adult will tell me I’m faking my diagnosis (no one has ever satisfactorily explained to me why someone would fake a diagnosis, but that is beside the point). Occasionally, when I’m scrolling through puppy pictures to…

In 2019, there was a measles outbreak in the US. It was the largest number of measles cases in a single year since 1992 (CDC). This outbreak occurred because parents decided they would rather risk their children get measles than risk their children get autism. Most people agree that this…

Alright, so a lot of people took interest in my criticism of Color the Spectrum. I’m gonna be honest, it wasn’t my best work. It was rushed because I was angry. I’m taking a new medication that has been intensifying my emotions and I’m also working on my last few…

Awareness brings attention to a problem Acceptance helps people understand something that may have initially made them uncomfortable. Awareness only increases knowledge about a problem Acceptance makes people comfortable with something. Awareness asks other people to learn more. Acceptance starts with yourself, which is hard work. To understand why Autism…

No? Then why are you okay saying you were diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome? Naming a developmental disorder after a Nazi is wrong. It is offensive to the Jewish community and to the Autistic community. If you reject my analogy because you want to debate which Nazi was worse, you are…

⚠️ Content warning: eugenics, bullying, language. There is an ongoing conversation about whether words like “dumb,” “stupid,” “idiot,” and “moron” should be removed from our collective vernacular. I believe they should be. One of the reasons I support no longer saying these words because the only arguments against removing those…

I’ve been spending a lot of time on Tumblr recently, reading what some intellectually disabled (ID) folks have to say about disability advocacy. My main takeaway is that ID folks do not feel supported by prominent autism advocacy groups like ASAN and feel left out of conversations about autism issues…

The past couple of weeks have been really difficult for me. Day to day life has been going badly. There are lots of things I’ve wanted to write about and share here, but that has simply been impossible. …

⚠️ Content warning for ableism, colonialism, racism, and exploitation. When we talk about representation, I often hear the question “why is it bad for non-disabled actors to play disabled characters? Isn’t it an actors’ job to pretend to be someone who they aren’t?” …