The work of David Gray-Hammond at Emergent Divergence, go to website at https://emergentdivergence.com/author/divergentdavid/ for more.
It seems with each passing day there is a new article about a piece of autism research being conducted. There are always two common themes. The first is that the research is conducted by non-autistic researchers, who generally only include Autistics in a tokenistic way at best. The second is that pretty much all of the research aims to reduce the number of Autistic people, either by reducing diagnoses, or literally erasing us.
One could be forgiven for thinking that ableism is having a renaissance, but the truth is much more grim than that. The truth is, that ableism isn’t re-emerging, it never went anywhere. The main observable difference that I find now, is that people (researchers in particular) are being much louder about their efforts.
Their want to erase us, reduce us, eradicate us, has become much more overt.
Is it any wonder that Autistic people around the globe…
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