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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Is being a capitalist autism advocate a contradiction? |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2016, 2:24 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 757
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| Among the many facets of the pro-autism community there is the opinion that capitalism and meritocracy (the practice of giving more to people with the most qualifications) are the main problems faced by autistics, and disabled people in general. Many who support that opinion advocate a socialism pol... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Hockey Goalie uses mask to spread awareness |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2016, 2:00 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 510
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| Seems vague on the important question of pro-autism vs. anti-autism. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Ari Ne'eman stepping down as ASAN president at end of year |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2016, 3:56 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,259
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| Reading Julia Bascom's recent blog posts, I predict that this change will cement ASAN into the role of autistic advocacy as a special case of egalitarianism, ignoring any of the non-egalitarian reasons to be pro-autism. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Rob Ring and What went wrong at Autism Speaks: Everything |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2016, 8:53 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 687
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| While she certainly doesn't support a pro-autism point of view here, there's something interesting about how Bob and Suzanne Wright's daughter thinks they're suboptimally allocating their funds. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: We need to stop calling it autism |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2016, 8:49 pm
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Replies: 39
Views: 2,979
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| Are autistic adults also crystal *children* or crystal adults? What good is there in going against a title recognized by the psychological community? Your description does not address why the autism/allism classification is any worse than the crystal child/everyone else classification. I can't see a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The media telling us to hate difference? |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2016, 9:43 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,269
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| I'm hesitant to agree with any claims that presume that the media form a single unified entity. That being said, in my opinion, there is little explicit speech within any media that says or implies that difference is bad. At the same time, most characters are not portrayed with any peculiarities unl... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: How would a country run by autistics and aspergians look? |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2016, 9:34 pm
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Replies: 149
Views: 12,004
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| I actually don't think it would be a very well-run country. Legislators need to be good at predicting how people will behave if the laws change in any way, and I think we're particularly bad at that. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Trump would-be assassin was autistic according to lawyer |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 28 Jun 2016, 9:47 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,227
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| I don't know which conclusions to draw from the lawyer's assumption that it would be a good idea to mention that the client is autistic. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Please stop Steve Silberman from speaking at the ASA Meeting |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 28 Jun 2016, 9:45 pm
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,466
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| I haven't finished reading it, but I remember the titular character in the chapter "The boy who loved green straws," and some other characters being impaired by autism. I think his balance of HFA/LFA representation is within reasonable range of reality. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: aspergers even exists? |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 26 May 2016, 8:54 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 844
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| I'm going to approach this from a mathematician's perspective. Of all the people in the world, some have the combination of traits that the DSM-IV identifies as Asperger's, and others do not. From this perspective, the distinction definitely exists. A more challenging question is whether this distin... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What would YOU like to see in the future of autism? |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 25 May 2016, 2:04 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,695
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| As far as scientific advances, I'd want an answer to the question "Why do all these symptoms correlate with each other?" |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What would YOU like to see in the future of autism? |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 25 May 2016, 2:02 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,695
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First, I love the fact that you're asking this question.
My short answer is that I would want most people to have an accurate perception of how autism is different from other neurotypes. Too many of the descriptions of autism would fit just as well as descriptions of other minority neurotypes. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Letter by non verbal teen explaining his autism |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 25 May 2016, 1:57 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 777
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| I have mixed feelings about this. I like the article, but whoever edited this article gave it the wrong title. The article has nothing to do with the letter that he wrote, and everything to do wit the existence of technology that allows non-speaking autistics to communicate through writing. The edit... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Offensive article on MyAspergersChild |
| ASPowerationsReturns |
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Posted: 25 May 2016, 1:44 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,471
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| I have so many problems with this article, I'm not sure I can list them all without forgetting a few. 1) The article suggests that romantic/sexual relationships are of the form "Man wants sex, woman may or may not be interested." 2) The article does not mention the fact that in our society... |
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