Autistic Voices: A Masterpost
Here is a list of resources about autism, with a focus on actually autistic voices, divided by topic. You will find articles, websites, videos, Youtube channels, etc., most of them created by autistic people. If there are resources you would like to contribute to this post, or if you have other suggestions, don’t hesitate to let me know.
Nick Walker: What is autism?
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: About Autism
Autisticality: Inclusive autistic traits
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What is Autism?
Identity-First Autistic: The Neurodiversity Paradigm
Nick Walker: Neurodiversity: some basic terms and definitions
Nick Walker: The Neurodiversity Paradigm and the Path of Self-Liberation
Nick Walker: Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm
Elisabeth Wiklander: Neurodiversity — the key that unlocked my world
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What is Neurodiversity
Identity-first language vs person-first language
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: Identity-First Language
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Person First Language
Autistic Hoya: The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters
Social model of disability vs medical model of disability
Identity-First Autistic: Understanding Disability Models
Autistic Hoya: You are not a burden.
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Models of Disability Discourse
Nathan Selove: Creating A Social Model of Autism
Ari Ne’eman at Emory University: Autism and the Disability Community: The Politics of Neurodiversity, Causation and Cure
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #16: Is Autism a Disability?
Identity-First Autistic: Identity-First Autistic’s stance on ‘functioning labels’
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What about Functioning Labels?
autisticliving: What’s Wrong with Functioning Labels? A Masterpost.
Nathan Selove: Autistic ACTUALLY Speaking: High Functioning versus Low Functioning
AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: WHY LABELS EXPECIALLY HIGH & LOW FUNCTIONING AUTISM IS ARE A LOAD OF CRAP! (cw: use of the R-word)
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: The Problems with Functioning Labels
Reese Piper: ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Day-To-Day Struggle For Autistic Women
Fabienne Cazalis: The women who don’t know they’re autistic
Aspergers from the Inside: Female Diagnosis and Self-Advocacy with Geraldine Robertson
Purple Ella: DIFFERENCES AUTISTIC BOYS AND GIRLS
Seventh Voice: The Gas-lighting of Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum
AutisticNomad: Speaking to Suicidal Autistics
Science Daily: Coventry University: People with Autism at Greater Risk of Attempting Suicide
Dan Jones: Autism: Diagnosis Saved My Life
Rebecca Brewer and Jennifer Murphy for Spectrum News: People with autism can read emotions, feel empathy
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Empathy
Luna Lindsey: Double-Standards: The Irony of Empathy and Autism
Intersectional Neurodiversity: New Research Suggests Social Issues Are Down to Neurotypicals More than Autistics
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Self Advocacy
Amythest Schaber: Autistics Speaking: Self-Advocacy in a Culture of Cure
Autistic Hoya: What is Self-Advocacy?
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Executive Functioning Problems: A Frustrating Aspect of Being Autistic
Reese Piper: ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Day-To-Day Struggle For Autistic Women
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #25: What is Executive Functioning?
Aspergers from the Inside: Executive Function (a response to Ask an Autistic)
Purple Ella: AUTISM AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
Musings of an Aspie: What’s So Special About a Special Interest?
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #13 - What are Special Interests?
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autism and Intense Interests: Why We Love What We Love and Why It Should Matter to You
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #1 - What is Stimming?
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: Living Atypically - Self-Injurious Stims
The Artism Spectrum: Stimming 101, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stim
The Artism Spectrum: The Dark Side of the Stim: Self-injury and Destructive Habits
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #15 - What are Autistic Meltdowns?
Unstrange Minds: The Protective Gift of Meltdowns
Purple Ella: DEALING WITH MELTDOWNS
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #20 - What are Autistic Shutdowns?
Unstrange Mind: Autistic Shutdown Alters Brain Function
AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: ANOTHER WAY AUTISTIC WEREWOLVES HIDE IN THIS NEUROTYPICAL WORLD!
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #2 - What is Passing?
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #3 - What is Autistic Burnout?
Musings of an Aspie: Autistic Regression and Fluid Adaptation
Autism Information Library: “Help! I seem to be Getting More Autistic!”
Divergent Minds: A Look at Autistic Inertia
Unstrange Mind: Alexithymia: I Don’t Know How I Feel
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #27: What is Alexithymia?
What not to say to an autistic person
Autistic Hoya: 15 Things You Should Never Say To An Autistic
Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: What to say, and not to say, to an autistic adult
Nathan Selove: Top 5 Well Meaning Things People Should Stop Saying to Autistics
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #12 - What Shouldn’t I Say to Autistic People?
StimNation: S#!T Ignorant People Say to Autistics
Actually Autistic: 10 Things Not To Say To Autistic People
BBC Three: Things Not To Say To An Autistic Person
Non-speaking autistic voices
Amy Sequenzia: Non-speaking, “low-functioning”
Mel Baggs: In My Language
Mel Baggs: Don’t ever assume autism researchers know what they’re doing
Autism $peaks/Light It Up Blue/Puzzle Piece
The Caffeinated Autistic: New Autism Speaks Masterpost (Updated 4/4/17)
The Caffeinated Autistic: Autism Speaks *still* does not speak for me
Autistic Anthro: Enough with the Puzzle Pieces
Autistic Anthro: Autism Awareness Month
Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #6 - What’s Wrong With Autism Speaks
Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Lighting Up Blue
John Elder Robinson: I Resign My Roles at Autism Speaks
Autistic Hoya: Co-Opting the Movement: Autism Speaks, John Elder Robinson, and Complicity in Oppression
Autistic Hoya: Responding to Autism Speaks
When autism parents don’t listen
Jim Sinclair: Don’t Mourn For Us
Autistic Hoya: They keep publishing these violent articles
Autistic Hoya: Why we must #BoycottToSiri / An open letter to Judith Newman
Amythest Schaber: #BoycottToSiri
Susie Rodarme: An Open Letter to HarperCollins about TO SIRI WITH LOVE
Kaelan Rhywiol: Why I Believe ‘To Siri With Love’ By Judith Newman Is A Book That Does Incredible Damage To The Autistic Community
Aaron Kappel: When You’re Autistic, Abuse Is Considered Love
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autism Uncensored: A Dangerous and Spirit-Crushing Book
Nathan Selove: Service Dog Tales
Super Pépette - Julie Dachez’s Youtube channel
La Fille Pas Sympa - Julia March’s blog
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