Steve Silberman
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first heard Jan 2018
last heard Jul 2022
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Like they were incredibly witty and ironic, cunningly witty and ironic, you know, at times.
So the experience of being immersed in autistic culture just for a week was like a bath that washed away my stereotypes before I started writing.
Well, one thing I like are parents,
organizations or blogs and whatnot that are open to listening to the voices of autistic adults because i think it's really important i think the future well even the present but also the future of the neurodiversity movement is in neurodivergent individuals joining together with parents rather than seeing them as the enemy you know some parents are the enemy and you know some
neurodiversity activists are really rough to work with.
But in general, I think if a bridge of allyship could be built between those two communities, that it can be so powerful that it can change the world in a single generation.
And I'll give you actually two concrete examples.
There's a website called The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism.
I believe it's thinkingautism.com.
And it was started by
Two parents, one of whom is autistic herself, as well as having a significantly disabled autistic son.
And in fact, even the neurotypical parent, Shannon Rosa, who I write about at great length in Neurotribes, her son is significantly disabled.
So when people say,
oh, this neurodiversity stuff is just for the quote-unquote high-functioning chatty aspies or whatever.
That's wrong.
The neurodiversity movement is an outgrowth of the disability rights movement, and the disability rights movement did not get started by people leaving the people in wheelchairs behind.
it's a movement for everyone in society, in a sense, and certainly for all kinds of disabled people.
So thinkingautism.com, I'm pretty sure that's the URL, is a great model of a blog that is read by a lot of parents, that is staffed by parents, but that also includes the voices of autistic adults, some of whom are also parents.
So I think that's a paradigm for an institution that's
the future.
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