The Autistic Rigthts Movement - NY Magazine
A photo of Ari Ne'eman, of The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network from the magazine.
An interesting article on The Autism Rights Movement here in New York Magazine. The only trouble is how the writer generalizes that the "movement" does not see autism as disability.
As I'm not feeling too well, I can't write much but Kristina did write about the piece in her blog Autism Vox.
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Why is it that everytime people hear that we don't want to eradicate autism that it must mean we don't think it's a disability? Is it so hard for people to think positively about disabled people?
Many people still believe that autism is a mental illness. I even had a neurobio textbook which tended to support that belief by suggesting an hypothesis of brain damage caused by talidomide (yes I was fuming...). In that standpoint, eradicating it is considered a good thing.
now the question is how to shift the public's perception from an illness to a disability, that is a question which I asked myself many times over the years.
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