Trust in our combined experience as autistics, and love of helping parents!
Trust in our combined experience as autistics, and love of helping parents!
You’ve probably heard many ways to describe and label autistics. Most of these are not helpful, and are actually harmful.
This section clarifies what labels are helpful, which labels should no longer be used, who is considered autistic, and what the reasoning is behind these details
Learn about the history of Person First Language (PFL) vs Identity First Language (IFL) and the Autistic community’s stance on it here.
If you’ve had a child professionally diagnosed as autistic, it’s almost certain you’ve been told that ABA is the best treatment for your child. This section covers the autistic community’s stance on ABA and why we feel that way. (Spoiler alert: It’s abuse and we hate it).
So, you understand that ABA is bad, but it’s not alone. There are countless other therapies that are essentially ABA in disguise. This section covers what those are and why they are just as bad.
Puzzle Pieces?... Autism moms?... Temple Grandin?... Find out how the Autistic community views images and concepts that have become popular in society.
There are a lot of products that claim to help autism or autistic people. It seems like a new one pops up about once a month on average. This section is a guide to these services and products to preemptively explain what is legitimate, a scam, or questionable.
Some of the more common kinds of questions we routinely get are in the category of “Should we tell X that Y is autistic? How and when should we tell them?”. This section is meant to be a guide for those kinds of questions to hopefully make it faster and easier to get those answers.
Unsure whether or not to support a particular autism-related organization? This section covers organizations such as Autism Speaks, Next for Autism, ASAN, and more!
Confused by the vocabulary of the Autistic Community, click below to find out more!