The New Yorker has been kind enough to publish my letter, where I point out that Autistic kids don't have black mirrors for eyes. ( The...

In Steven Shapin's review of In a Different Key , he claims that Autistic children's eyes "are not windows to their souls, but ...

Something like this happens: 1. I'm in college, in a psychology class, where the professor tells us that Autistic people don't ...

This really just blends into the woodwork but since I happened to end up complaining about it in real life, here is a post about J...

Some people do different things or need different things from the average person. (Or the imaginary average person.) Other people have to de...

okay so this is something I wonder about all the time. whenever I read any mainstream media article about verbal people with autism, the peo...

I take it really hard when I see someone defending the ability of A/autistic people to work or more generally "contribute to society...

1 Today at Walgreens I got my TB test, and I also got a COUPON for $3 off on any purchase above $15. Just like Walgreens wanted me to I imme...

but not a super composed post, just a reply to a comment. Normally I'd just respond in the comment thread obviously, but since I've ...

from my disability page here I feel like American pop culture is obsessed with autism. It is obsessed with two kinds of autism: very sever...

Asher made this post about microaggressions , it was really good. I want to make a post like it someday when I can remember to write things ...

cute stories about verbal people with ASD (usually adults) "learning to do things" (such as: flirt! go on a date! go to a party!)....

On my school's gossip/general anonymous noodling forum, someone posted an Empathy Quotient test by Simon Baron-Cohen. Like all annoying...

Several years ago I remember reading a New Yorker piece by one of the Autism Pop Culture kids--John Elder Robison maybe? Whoever he was, he...

(stfu you can't imagine how much I love this show) in 3x04 when Freddie finds JJ at Pandora's party and looks after him--I general...

I really love chaoticidealism's blog , but I take issue with something she said in this NPR article about her . I actually don't rea...

Before I start I should say that I'm not trying to write about what autism is and outright deny that there are social issues. I have in ...

I'm approaching the cutoff for DD services for acquired disability so all I can think about is I better get one right now. I'm think...

I have to admit that I'm super disingenuous in the way I write about autism. Well, super is a strong word. But sometimes I feel that I t...