AutiGender is when someone’s gender is influenced by being Autistic, but HOW can being Autistic (or NeuroDivergent) influence someone’s experience of gender?
Continue reading Autism Gender? Explaining NeuroGenders: What do AutiGender and NeuroGender mean?
There is a misconception that Autistic People do not have sex or sexual urges. While this may be true for some Autistic People, many Autistic People DO enjoy sex.
Continue reading Do Autistic People Have Sex – The Truth About Autism & Sex
I consider “Conversion Therapy” to be ANY behavioral modification program that uses negative and positive reinforcements to coerce and manipulate someone into emulating behaviors that are forced and unnatural to them to make the person blend in and appear more “socially acceptable” (whether for Queer, NeuroDivergent, or any other type of behavior that is not considered the “social norm”).
Continue reading Behaviorism 101: Identifying Autistic, NeuroDivergent, and Other forms of Conversion “Therapy”
As expected, both of my posts created pushback from angry parents who follow the ABA ideology and felt “shamed” by my choice of strong words – “Conversion Therapy” but I stand by them.
Continue reading Objections to the Terms Autistic and NeuroDivergent “Conversion Therapy”
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Ivar Lovaas conducted experiments using rewards and punishments to shape “desirable” or “normative behaviors” in gender nonconforming and Autistic children.
Continue reading NeuroQueer Timelines: Conversion Therapy, Queer History, and ABA – The Pains of Watching History Repeat Itself
Because I’d been told “work wasn’t supposed to be fun,” I kept taking jobs that made me miserable, feeling as if the punishments and misery were rights of passage necessary for the money I earned.
Continue reading How many NeuroDivergent people’s skills are lost (or never have a chance to grow) because those NeuroDivergent People are stuck in survival mode?
Without my Autistic brain, I wouldn’t be me. Autism influences nearly every part of me and my experience of the world around me.
Continue reading There’s no Cure for Autism (I Don’t Want One) – I Will Always BE Autistic
Autistic Pride Day was not borne from the need to celebrate being Autistic, but instead in recognition of our right to live authentically (or at all). Continue reading 10 Reasons We Need Autistic Pride
They say Queer People are “perverts” and “sexual deviants,” but our accusers seem to be the ones obsessed with sex and private parts.
Continue reading Friendly Reminder: The First Pride Was a Riot
Coming out nonbinary has been like coming out NeuroDivergent in many ways. Many people don’t believe nonbinary people exist. Some people (too many) also don’t believe Autism or ADHD exist either.
Continue reading Coming Out Autistic and ADHD: Is Coming out NeuroDivergent Like Coming Out of the Closet?