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?
If Autistic People are determined “too vulnerable” to know what’s best for us in one area of our lives, what’s to stop them from applying this logic to other areas?
Continue reading Autistic Trans Adults are the Latest Target of Anti-Trans Legislation (but ALL Autistics are in Danger)
Visibility is intentional defiance when people hate you and want you to make yourself small. Continue reading International Transgender Day of Visibility – Visibility is Defiance
Learning I’m Autistic, and making the choice to learn who the most authentic version of myself could be is the reason I discovered I’m nonbinary.
Continue reading NeuroDivergent NonBinary NeuroQueering NeuroAdventures
Up until 1973, psychologists and psychiatrists will still consider homosexuality to be a form of illness. It will be 1987, the year I’m born, before homosexuality will be completely removed from the DSM. Continue reading LGBTQIA+ & Autism Medicalization Timeline – A NeuroQueer Conversion Therapy History Lesson
