The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal
An article by psychiatrists Meng-Chaun Lai and Simon Baron-Cohen, published in the medical journal The Lancet, has proposed that an entire generation of Autistic people were misdiagnosed as having personality disorders.[80]
Devon Price • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
He had discovered that children in particular suffered as the result of exposures to lead; many of the adverse health effects they experienced were cognitive issues, including behavioural issues and developmental problems as well as lowered IQ.
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
In these therapies, autism is not so much an ecology of neuroqueer experience but rather an ecology of joint and forcible prosthesis, an ecology in which the autistic is physically made to comply with the therapeutic and social demands of nonautistic publics.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
If autism is being presented as a curable or preventable negative trait, something to “[s]ave our children & their future[s]” from, then what incentive do non-autistic people have to respect their autistic children as human beings?