Do you know what we wish we could do? Start up an organisation that spreads awareness of plurality using arguments based on neurodiversity, personhood and complex systems, rather than using spiritual arguments, or 'that's the way it is' explanations. Right ...Read More
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To-day in class, we (and a co-present M.D., who was half-paying attention) watched a rather depressing film about the international impact of HIV infection. Actually, 'rather depressing' sounds a bit dismissive of it; it was more...moving, really, than just 'depressing ...Read More
Apparently a lot of the anti-psychiatry movement is epically transphobic--instead of saying being trans is a psychiatric disorder, they just claim that it doesn't exist, and is a form of body mutilation. This is just as bad as the psychiatric ...Read More
I seriously cannot stand the us-and-them mindset that some members of minority groups have. While there's room for delineating different members of a certain group, it's really unproductive to make those differences a cause for animosity BETWEEN those people. I've ...Read More
This system's social abilities are paradoxical. That is, we can pick up on nuances fairly well in some circumstances, but there are social areas in which we are just plain stupid. That's part and parcel of being on the autistic ...Read More
http://autismdiva.blogspot.com/2006/01/ballastexistenz-its-what-they-train-us.html We can relate to this. Although we're no longer in a situation in which we're being taught ABA-style methods for 'acting normal', we still feel the 'need' to act normal whenever we're surrounded by others. And right now, that's just ...Read More
http://www.thevoiceofautism.org/fenners/profile/ This is probably the first social-networking site on which we've signed up as plural. (Well, discounting journal/blogging sites, which are a bit different.) We chose not to sign up as a singlet there because of the site's commitment to neurodiversity, ...Read More
This is a day late for the Blog Against Disablism Day, but we were rather busy yesterday, and we've had almost all our spoons yanked away from us again. Yes, people are putting their stupid ticky boxes of rules over ...Read More
As we make abundantly clear all over this website, we do not identify with this body's physical characteristics or gender. Unfortunately, someone seems to be under the impression that we ARE those things, or live in a body that belongs ...Read More