Autism: My Story Is Mine to Tell
My Story is Mine to Tell by Amy Sequenzia. Everywhere - on the web, in conferences, in books, on TV and on the radio, in college lecture halls - people are talking about autism. Too many of these voices are non-autistic voices. Too many of these voices don't really know what autism is. Too many of these voices are simply telling old stories - full of assumptions - that non-Autistics voices have told before. Too many of these voices are actively silencing and ignoring Autistic voices, while being hostile to us when we tell them they are wrong. They tell
We Are Not In Our Own World
We need to be careful about how we think about and talk about people with disabilities. One example is the reference that those who are autistic or deaf or blind or have some sort of movement differences are “in their own world.”
