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Autistics Against Curing Autism

evidence in understanding autism. Overall, they suggest that these research findings add up to support a (rather grim) image of autism as a condition of ‘diminished pleasure, reduced motivation to acquire rewarding stimuli and less avoidance of punishment’. Somewhat alarmingly, they suggest that, in the future, neurostimulation techniques could be

Sasson and colleagues (2017), for example, found that neurotypical people quickly and subconsciously identify that a stranger is Autistic, often within milliseconds of meeting them.[29] They don’t realize that they’ve identified the person as Autistic, though; they just think the person is weird.

Julia Bascom’s Just Stimming, Amy Sequenzia’s Non-Speaking Autistic Speaking, Ido Kedar’s Ido in Autismland, and Cynthia Kim’s Musings of an Aspie).

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, Autistics.org, the Ed Wiley Lending Library, and the Loud Hands Project are among such autistic-led archival efforts.

her autistic daughter, Grace, has in getting by in a world that does not see her, of the ‘double discrimination’ of being both female and autistic.