On Sunday, March 1, 2015, the Bay Area disability community gathered at the Ed Roberts Campus to remember and mourn the deaths of disabled people at the hands of their parents, caregivers or care p…

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The American Booksellers Association, Audio Publishers Association, Independent Book Publishers Association, PEN America, and dozens of other orgs issued a letter addressing President Donald Trump's e...

The first generation of kids to receive intensive ABA has grown up — and many have criticized it as harmful and even abusive.

Nick Walker, PhD A number of autistic authors have written critiques of person-first language in the past, beginning with Jim Sinclair’s “Why I Dislike Person First Language” in 1999. While these prev...

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Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…

"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”

A woman who thinks “everyone’s a little bit autistic” has no idea she’s the most autistic woman to ever autism, it has been rumoured.  Beth Hapworth, 45, made the claim after suggesting her autistic f...

The Dark Tetrad, also known as the Dark Quad, is a set of interrelated negative personality features: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism. The term is an expansion of the idea of the...