Professor Jason Arday: Autism, Racism, Academia and the Things We Shouldn’t Know
Kieran Rose considers the complexities surrounding the death of Jason Arday and how autism and racism are both relevant.
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Autistic Culture
Life is Hard
Just being alive as a disabled person in this world is HARD, especially when you are surrounded by stigma and that has soaked into your bones, shaping both your worldview
Autism, its Labels and the Language of Pathologising Rhetoric
Why Language Matters The argument is often made that debates around language are trivial, the sort of “semantics” that distract from the real work of supporting Autistic people. To those outside our
The Danger of Misunderstanding Neuro-Affirming Practice
In this article Kieran Rose discusses the dangers of misunderstanding neuro-affirming practice. Overview: There’s been a lot of debate lately about whether “neuro-affirming” practice is just another form of brain determinism. It isn’t. The
Talking Without Words: Communication, Culture, Autism and How I Needed Someone to Tell Me that it Was Okay to Be Me
When I was young, I used to drag a chair from my bedroom all the way across the landing, and stand on it, looking out of the window onto the