Autistic History Month

Celebrating Autistic history through many formats each November. We take submissions on the main site and look on our own for bits of Autistic history.

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(still not an active blog, just. thought about m. kelter today.)

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This video series from the Autistic Archive covers the history of the neurodiversity movement through present day. 

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Autistic Archive

Welcome! Here you will find updates as well as a guide on how to use this website. About gives a rundown of what this website is and informs you of some basic stuff you should know before browsing the archives. Websites includes community websites made by and for autistic people, personal blogs

The Autistic Archive, created by ACI alum Ira Eidle, works to preserve the history of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement. This can give people an idea of where this movement comes from and where it could be going. 

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The Lincolnshire Poacher

for M. Kelter I stalk a ghost through the internet now. A post of yours I had bookmarked in my “best goddamn writing about autism” folder, but which, off of the top of my head, I can remember nothi…

I can’t see the thing itself anymore, but I can guess at some of the matter it revolved around.

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Remembering Mel Baggs organized by Samantha Crane

Our community is mourning the loss of Mel Baggs, writer and activist, who passed away unexpectedl… Samantha Crane needs your support for Remembering Mel Baggs

As our community mourns the loss of Mel Baggs, Mel’s loved ones need help to preserve Mel’s writings and artwork, ship treasured items and family heirlooms to the people sie would want them to go to, and take care of other expenses related to hir death.

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On Mel Bagg’s untimely death - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN)

April 12, 2020 | by Lydia Brown

“We have to know. That we will be okay no matter what skills we learn, what skills we lose, and what skills we end up with by the time we grow up. That the world will still have a place for us.” –Mel Baggs

Yesterday [April 11, 2020], the autistic community, the self-advocacy movement, and humanity at large lost a titan, a leader, a visionary, a public intellectual, and an artist whose work has influenced, inspired, and forged paths forward for thousands of autistic activists and advocates for decades.

Amelia Evelyn Voicy Baggs, known to friends as Mel, died in Vermont, where sie had lived for many years after migrating from hir home among the California redwoods, crocheting tapestries and shawls, loving cats, and spending time with nature. Sie was a powerful advocate and writer who consistently named injustice and constantly demanded better, while also creating and curating some of the earliest and most essential writings on autistic culture, neurodiversity, and autistic experiences that many of us still turn to today.

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Since Ver­i­zon announced the new rule, peo­ple who have used, loved, and hat­ed Tum­blr have been eulo­giz­ing it. In the com­men­tary on the social net­work, its past, and its like­ly-lim­it­ed future, autism comes up as a theme among crit­ics and mourn­ers alike.

“This com­mu­ni­ty, known as Autis­tic Tum­blr, is not the old­est online gath­er­ing place for Autis­tic peo­ple, but it is dis­tin­guished in its diver­si­ty, acces­si­ble entry-point to the com­mu­ni­ty, organ­i­cal­ly pro-neu­ro­di­ver­si­ty pos­ture, and suc­cess as a start­ing point for younger Mil­len­ni­al activists…

Autis­tic Tum­blr became a small but dis­cernible com­mu­ni­ty in the very ear­ly 2010s. It start­ed on tags like #asperg­ers and #autism. The pop­u­la­tion might well have fit in a high school class­room with­out feel­ing too cramped. Tum­blr, then a grow­ing social net­work, drew in new mem­bers rapid­ly. Most were in their teens or twen­ties. Some hap­pened to be Autis­tic.”

@iamthethunder wrote a piece on Autistic Tumblr and what it was, what it is, and the questions about its future based on Verizon’s decision. I’m not going anywhere until the site straight up gets shut down, and I hope that day is not drastically imminent, but we should be prepared.  

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Autistics Speaking Day 2018

This is the main submission form for ASDay 2018! Submissions will go onto the main ASDay blog http://autisticsspeakingday.blogspot.ca/, and might be reblogged on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. We welcome all mediums of entries and methods of communication! If you have any questions, please email us at AutisticsSpeakingDay at gmail dot com.

November 1st is Autistics Speaking Day 2018. It is a blogging event that started in 2011 to battle negative perspectives about autistic people and amplifying autistic stories and narratives. There is no theme, there is no limitation on medium. Submissions can be made over Tumblr, over Facebook, Twitter, Email, and through the submissions form. For autistics, by autistics

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Most autistic people who are capable of formulating questions have frequently experienced the following scenario: We ask for information that we need in order to prepare ourselves for a new experience. Instead of answering our questions, NT people tell us that we don’t need to ask these questions at all. We just need to relax and stop being so anxious. The fact is that being able to ask questions, and getting clear answers to our questions, and thus knowing what to expect, are often the very things autistic people need in order to be able to relax and not be anxious. Asking a lot of questions about the details of a situation is usually not a “maladaptive behavior” that increases an autistic person’s anxiety. More often it’s an adaptive strategy that an autistic person is using to reduce anxiety or to prevent being in an anxiety-provoking situation in the first place. It’s very important for us to have thorough explanations and ample opportunities to ask questions.

Jim Sinclair, “Cultural Commentary: Being Autistic Together”

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Hillary Krzywkoski: Different, Not Less

I am an emerging writer and artist with a story to tell about my autistic family’s past struggles. My husband and I have faced adversity when in the formative years of building our family, be…

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Since February 2017 Margot Cole of Crip Video Productions has been working on A stroke of endurance – a film about how students deal with their professor developing a stroke in the middle of …

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Do we live in a word-cage? Are we bounded by conceptual maps that tell us where we belong? Could the thesaurus change our world or will old concepts accept new terms and the same laundered attitude…

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Autistic History Month 2017: Link Compilation

Compiled by Kit Mead This is a link compilation of posts about autistic history, whether general autism history or personal autism history, and foundational/influential pieces. Some of these links may contain information that is “dated” or they may have occasional iffy content. 2017 Autism’s Lost Generation (2015 Atlantic article on history) A Place For All (1997) Hear Our Voices Campaign part…

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Update: Submissions should be scheduled this week and next

Hi folks, I know it’s been quiet over here since the call for submissions (which are still open). I’m the only site admin/mod and have been dealing with stuff that life decided to make happen. I hope to start responding to and scheduling submissions this week and next. Sorry to keep everyone waiting! Best, kpagination

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To raising Autism awareness and Acceptance, and battling negative stereotypes about Autism. To advocate for the inclusion of Autistic people in the community. To offer a forum to broadcast our stories and thoughts, and to help the messages of Autistic people and non-Austistic allies reach as many people as possible.

Are you getting ready for ASDay on November 1st? Cause we are! 

Check out our website for participation images, the submission form, and our FAQ! You can also submit tumblr blogs here!

(We also encourage you to participate in Autistic History Month all of November!)

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Submit for Autistic History Month 2017!

Celebrating a rich Autistic culture and history that deserves to be told

Submissions for Autistic History Month are open until Nov. 29!

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Aspects of Autistic history can include the history of autistic culture, community, activism, and self-advocacy. They can be family or personal autism histories. We also are looking for oral histories and interviews with long-time activists.

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Submit for Autistic History Month 2017!

Celebrating a rich Autistic culture and history that deserves to be told

Submissions for Autistic History Month are open until Nov. 29!

[Image description: The entire image has a sepia overlay. On a papery background, there is an opened book, text “Autistic History Month 2017,” and a painting depicting neurodiversity. On the bottom, there are three circles with text “history, community, culture” in them. End image description.]

Aspects of Autistic history can include the history of autistic culture, community, activism, and self-advocacy. They can be family or personal autism histories. We also are looking for oral histories and interviews with long-time activists.

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