Language Archives - The Autistic Advocate

A brief comment on the media frenzy surrounding Uta Frith’s latest intervention and the wider political narrative

"Naming ourselves is neither fashion nor confusion, and it is not the result of contagion. It is recognition. It is a refusal to let other people decide the boundaries of our humanity and our very existence."

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