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Content: suicide, homophobia, torture, abuse
LGBTQ+ activist Sarah Hegazi has died at age 30. We received a request to share an eulogy from the Hamilton Autistic Comfort Zone, who were in community with Sarah, honouring her life and activism. We join LGBTQ+ activists around the world in mourning Sarah as autistics, LGBTQ+ autistics, and LGBTQ+ autistics of colour. Rest in power, rest in pride, Sarah. We raise the flag for you. --- Sarah Hegazi was a lesbian socialist, communist and activist who was living in exile in Canada (Toronto) after being granted asylum when she was released from jail in Egypt. She, with many other Egyptians, had been arrested, assaulted and jailed for raising a rainbow flag at a concert by Mashrou' Leila, a band led by an openly gay singer who has since been banned from performing in the country. Sarah came all the way from Toronto to be part of the first autistic-led gathering we had in Hamilton as autistic people, on April 23 2019. It was Sarah who came up with our name, the Autistic Comfort Zone. She gave us permission to use it. At our first gathering, she spoke briefly about being in Canada as an exile, and hoping to find comfort here. We know that was very difficult to find, and still is. The vision we talked about was to create gathering spaces for us, by us, that could simply be spaces where we could just be autistic with each other, freely and safely, and support each other as peers, to center Black, Indigenous and People of Colour autistics and to organize in radical solidarity across political lines. We wanted to show that we could create this ourselves, in Hamilton (where there is still not a single autistic-specific support service for adults, in one of the largest cities in Canada) and we wanted to see that happen in Toronto too. We want, and we need, "a mighty kindness" (Rumi). Sarah was a mighty kindness. She was a brilliant, fierce and deeply honest human who spoke and wrote openly about revolution, and supported Egyptian, Sudanese and Syrian peoples' struggles against those regimes. She was "super Communist, super gay and feminist". She believed in smashing patriarchy and capitalism and that "strikes and staying in the streets are what is necessary to force change" (https://springmag.ca/interview-lessons-from-egypts-counter-revolution-for-sudan). Through our grief, is the resolve of breaking through our isolation to reach out and sustain ourselves through community and through action we take ourselves. One way we found this, briefly, was by coming together as autistic people. We also need to be affirmed in the many spaces we access which have little to no awareness of autistic lives and experiences, as BIPOC, LGBTQQIA2S people, and as survivors of systemic and interpersonal violence. We have a long, slow way to go together. We will never organize another autistic space without thinking about Sarah, remembering her openness and about her neurodiversity, her gay pride and her political beliefs. We will never see another pride flag without thinking about the exuberant joy she took in raising that flag, what was stolen from her for expressing that publicly, and how state violence and police brutality is incompatible with human life and freedom. May a million more rise to stand in the place you have left, Sarah Hegazi. Rest in power, rest in pride. #RaiseTheFlagForSarah — The Hamilton Autistic Comfort Zone --- Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line Text: 647 694 4275 Live chat: https://www.youthline.ca/# Trans Lifeline Phone hotline: 1 877 330 6366 Toronto-specific LGBTQQIA2S resources Hamilton-specific LGBTQQIA2S resources
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Content: police brutality, murder, racism, ableism
Autistics United Canada condemns the murders of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Eishia Husdon, Breonna Taylor, Jason Collins, D’Andre Campbell, Chantel Moore, and many more at the hands of the police. As communities in the USA, Canada, and around the world surge to protest police violence and brutality towards Black and Indigenous people, we add our voices as racialized and white autistic people. Disability justice requires solidarity and collective liberation. Disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, Black, Indigenous, and otherwise racialized communities are disproportionately targeted by police violence in a system that is upheld by white supremacy and ableism. Canada has a long, brutal history of state violence against Black and Indigenous people: the RCMP were originally used to force Indigenous people off their ancestral lands, keep Indigenous children in residential schools, and enforce slavery of Black and Indigenous people. To uphold our fight against ableism, we must also combat the systemic racism and police state that harm countless people in our communities. This is not just a case of a few bad apples. If one police officer wrongfully kills someone, and the rest of the police do not hold that officer accountable, then the whole justice system is broken. And it is. It is important to note that 42% of people who were killed by Canadian police since 2000 were in mental distress. This is a problem when police are called on neurodivergent people, particularly neurodivergent BIPOC, in crisis. Disabled BIPOC deserve to live and receive support when we are in mental distress. Police are not mental health professionals. We need to end the practice of calling the police for people who need healthcare and support, simply because there are no non-police mobile crisis response teams. Defund the police and fund culturally competent, trauma-informed, BIPOC-led mental health support! Defunding police is a start--but ultimately ending state violence requires abolition of police and carceral spaces. There are viable alternative solutions to police. As Black Lives Matter Toronto organizer Syrus Marcus Ware says, "We can build communities rooted in social justice that actually keep us safe. We can keep each other safe. We can create community crisis response teams, transformative justice circles, supportive housing for all who need it, a universal basic income, decriminalizing drugs..." To do this, we must center the voices of people that are usually targeted by police, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, sex workers, and drug users. Black and Indigenous people are speaking up now--we stand by them in solidarity. To our Black and Indigenous community members: we care for you. Your lives matter. We know that many people are looking for ways to actively support Black and Indigenous people in their struggle for liberation. We have included a list of resources below, including ways you can support from home. As disabled people, we recognize multiple ways of helping and caring for one another, whether it be checking in with Black and Indigenous friends and neighbours, providing child care, cooking meals, going to protests, providing jail support, fundraising, emailing, phone calling, challenging racist remarks from family and friends, teaching children about anti-racism, translating documents, or sharing resources and information online. Regis Korchinski-Paquet. George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Eishia Husdon. Breonna Taylor. Jason Collins. D’Andre Campbell. Chantel Moore. And many more. We honour their names; we fight for a world where our Black and Indigenous community members can live freely without fear. “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist." - Angela Davis #DisabledPeopleForBlackLives #DisabledPeopleForIndigenousLives #BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice #AbolitionNow Learn, support, and take action! Check out our resource list here.  [Image description: photo of a young boy with short black hair smiling next to an illustration of a blue flower. Text reads: "Remembering Alejandro Ripley May 21, 2020"]
TW: murder of an autistic child, filicide, racism With grief and sorrow, we are sharing news of another murder of an autistic child, Alejandro Ripley. Alejandro was killed by his mother. Prior to confessing, she lied to the police, claiming that two Black men abducted her child and endangering the local Black community in the process. There is never justification for murdering an autistic child. Our lives are worth living. There is always another choice than murder. Let's remember Alejandro Ripley. He was 9 years old. He was described as "sweet and happy". He liked Captain America. He was a non-speaking communicator. His smile was shy and bright. Let's call what this murder is: an ableist and racist hate crime. The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network reports that the rate of disabled people being killed by their parents or caregivers is at least one a week. Even one is too many. Even one is a tragedy, a life cut short from hate, not love. It's the hate of disabled people by society--systemic ableism--that drives and attempts to justify these murders. It's the hate of Black people that allowed the mother to easily lead the police away on a chase for two imaginary Black men. Battling ableism requires challenging the idea that disabled lives are not worth living. It requires disabled people leading the conversations and decisions about our lives, moving away from segregation and towards mutual support and interdependence. Disability justice mandates that those most impacted lead the change. Alejandro Ripley's life was just starting, and it was worth living. He could have been happy. He could have been a leader. We'll never know. We call for justice for Alejandro Ripley. We call for disability justice for all of us, disabled, autistic, and grieving another in our community lost to violent ableism. Today is #GivingTuesdayNow! During this unprecedented time, we have kept fighting for autistic rights and disability justice. Not only do disabled people deserve to be safe during this pandemic, but we deserve to have rich social lives as well—even while physically distancing. We encourage you to join us in this effort by supporting our activities that help autistic people during this time. Your donation will be going towards funding: 1) Our online socials, including playing boardgames and infodumping, 2) Our workshops and conferences, such as our upcoming All Brains Are Beautiful workshop, 3) Maintaining resource lists for Autistics during the pandemic, and 4) Advocating for AAC access and caregiver support in hospitals. Thank you so much for your continued support! If you can, please donate here: https://www.autisticsunitedca.org/donate.html We understand that many people have difficulty with financial security right now, so please do not feel any pressure to donate if you are struggling. Sharing our posts and our work on social media helps immensely too!  [Image description: yellow stars on a pink background. Text reads “Thank you! For supporting Autistic-led Autistic support” Autistics United Canada logo of 8 interlocking rainbow infinity symbols]
A Toronto hospital has denied 69-year-old Tommy Jutcovich his main means of communication - an iPad - by calling it a "surveillance tool". This is a gross human rights violation.
One hour a day is NOT enough to communicate with hospital staff and with his family. That is all the time they are giving him on his augmentative and alternative communication device. In an impassioned plea, Tommy's daughter begged for help. His family is unable to visit Tommy during the pandemic. The iPad is Tommy's connection to the outside world, his mental health support, and his voice. By taking away his AAC device, the hospital staff are silencing him for 23 hours each day. This impacts his care, with no way to raise new concerns or communicate his symptoms and pain. When a disabled elder has difficulties speaking or moving, with no family around, he is extremely vulnerable to abuse and medical neglect. People in hospitals, institutions, and long-term care homes should have the right to document their care for their own safety. 1) Sign & share the petition Tommy Jutcovich’s family has started a petition to demand TGHC to give him access to his primary communication device: http://chng.it/5WNDXCrbrb 2) Contact the Toronto Grace Health Centre to tell them that #CommunicationIsARight and #AACSavesLives! Online form: http://www.torontograce.org/about-tghc/contact-tghc/ Email info@torontograce.org Phone: 416-925-2251 Fax: 416-925-3211 Twitter: @TorontoGraceHC Patricia Skol - Director, Quality, Patient Experience, Professional Practice & Chief Nursing Executive (CNE) Email: pskol@torontograce.org Phone: 416-925-2251 ext 219 Jake Tran - President & CEO Email: jtran@torontograce.org Phone: 416-925-2251 ext 295 --- Sample script for AAC users: Hello Toronto Grace Health Centre, I am writing to you to urge hospital staff to give Tommy Jutcovich access to his iPad for communicating with staff and with his family. I am an AAC user. That means that like Tommy, I also cannot rely on oral speech reliably to communicate, and use augmentative and alternative communication. One hour a day, at the whim of hospital staff schedules, is not enough for a person to be able to communicate through their ideal means. This means 23-hours of silencing a person's voice. That is an act of violence. During COVID-19 physical distancing measures, an iPad is Tommy's connection with his family, his religion, and the outside world. Allowing him only an inconsistent hour of time with his family per day is callous and inhumane. This is a gross human rights violation: both in denying Tommy a connection with his family and in denying his right to communicate. I strongly urge TGHC to reconsider their decision to harm their patient by denying access to communication. Sincerely, [Your Name] --- Ironically, TGHC is a member of Safer Healthcare Now, a "national campaign to promote improvements in patient safety". They have a campaign to #ConquerSilence. We encourage people to submit their concerns about TGHC to this campaign. Sample tweet: Hey @TorontoGraceHC, how can you claim to #ConquerSilence as a member of @Patient_Safety when you are actively silencing a non-speaking disabled elder patient by taking away his #AAC device 23 hours a day? Give Tommy Jutcovich his iPad! Let him speak to his family! #AACSavesLives --- 3) Share our 5 calls to action about communication access in hospitals with your MPs & provincial/territorial reps. We have linked tools to help you contact your representatives. This was in light of the recent death of Ariis Knight in BC, who was denied access to support staff and family who helped facilitate her communication. --- 4) Sign A4A Ontario's petition on patient access to AAC in hospitals: https://www.change.org/p/public-health-agency-of-canada-create-protocols-for-aac-access-in-hospitals We have some exciting events coming up this month!  Date: Saturday May 9, 2020 Time: 1:30pm PDT / 2:30pm MDT / 3:30pm CDT / 4:30pm EDT / 5:30pm ADT Location: Zoom video conferencing RSVP: https://bit.ly/aucABAB Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2482024898718004/ You will receive an email with a link to the webinar within 24 hours before it is scheduled to start. What is neurodiversity? How can we better support neurodivergent and disabled folks in our communities? How do we leverage our individual and collective power to act on disability justice? All Brains Are Beautiful is a free introductory workshop on neurodiversity, autistic identity, disability justice, collective access, inclusive event planning, and more!  The same workshop will be held again on May 23, 2020. Time: 1:30pm PDT / 2:30pm MDT / 3:30pm CDT / 4:30pm EDT / 5:30pm ADT Location: Zoom video conferencing RSVP: http://bit.ly/aucABAB2 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/533030684048150/  Date: Sunday, May 31, 2020
Time: 1:30pm PDT / 2:30pm MDT / 3:30pm CDT / 4:30pm EDT / 5:30pm ADT Location: Zoom video conferencing RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/aucinfodump Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/568333843789054/ You will receive a link to the webinar within 24 hours before it is scheduled to start. Come join our digital celebration of autistic passion and interests! As autistic people, our intense interests are a source of great meaning and joy. Let’s share that with one another! In this online symposium, volunteers will give 5 minute talks on a topic they’re passionate about, with time for questions from the audience. If you are autistic and are interested in participating as a presenter, send us an email (info@autisticsunitedca.org) with a 1-3 sentence proposal of a topic you’d like to present on. If you would like you can send us multiple topic proposals, and we can help you select one of them. You will need a computer microphone. Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2020  [Image description: Illustration portrait of Ariis Knight, a person in a wheelchair looking up with medium length brown hair and wearing a scarf and a flower necklace. Yellow banner surrounded by flowers above reads: "Ariis Knight April 3, 1980 - April 18, 2020" Yellow banner below reads "Ariis' Law" Text: "Patients with disabilities need the care and advocacy of someone who knows and loves them. <3 (heart) The presence of family or a support person can reduce anxiety, support patient safety, and enable communication and decision making. <3 (heart) We are not visitors-- We are essential partners in care <3 (heart) @drawing.change #NotJustAVisitor"] Image Credit: Drawing Change Her name was Ariis Knight. She was 40 years old. She communicated through her eyes and facial expressions; she had a beautiful smile. She was described to have a "bold sense of fashion" and a "huge personality". She died alone in the hospital without access to support staff or family. A non-speaking B.C. woman with cerebral palsy who "defied limitations", Ariis was admitted to Peace Arch Hospital on April 15th and died days later. Because of unclear COVID-19 restrictions, the hospital denied access to support staff and family who would have supported her communication and decision-making at the end of her life. We know in the disability community that if there isn't someone to be with a disabled person at the hospital, to say these are the supports this person needs, to say we are watching if medical neglect happens (and it does), they can die. While we do not know if the lack of communication and support directly resulted in her death, it could have played a role and certainly impacted the quality of her care and carrying out her end-of-life wishes. The unjust circumstances around her death were entirely preventable. Allowing support people and family to aid a disabled person at hospital visits is essential, not exceptional. It is also the responsibility of the hospital to ensure disabled people have access to communication supports, whether that be AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) or a support person. It in Ariis's case, she died without anyone who cared for her around her. This is not simply a tragedy; it is an injustice that was created by ableism and systemic failures to ensure disabled people are protected during the pandemic. Her story isn't unique. We are hearing across the country that disabled patients in hospitals are being denied access to supports, when policies are unclear and implementation is inconsistent in designating support staff and families as essential. Self-determination, supported decision-making, and communication access are human rights that cannot be denied during a pandemic. Disabled advocates have been flagging this as an issue for weeks. We call on the federal and provincial governments to act urgently to put a stop to these unjust deaths. We urge governments to: 1. Create unified policy across Canada with clear, unambiguous language deeming support staff and family as essential to accompany disabled people needing supports for communication, decision-making and specialized care in hospital visits. 2. Mandate access to alternative and augmentative communication (such as the patient's own AAC device, a sign language interpreter, or a support person who understands their communication style) in all hospitals and clinics. 3. Implement these policies comprehensively at the provincial and territorial level with training and orientation of hospital staff. 4. Strengthen and streamline existing complaints processes through patient quality care offices, so that accessibility barriers can be addressed in a timely manner. 5. Support hospitals in making plain-language materials to help disabled patients understand their situation and options. These changes need to happen now. But they won't help Ariis, who has passed on and left behind loved ones to mourn her and remember her. As a community, we grieve for the tragic loss of a fellow disabled person's life. We remember you, Ariis. Rest in power. ---- Share our five calls to action with your MP and provincial/territorial representatives to demand for change in Ariis's memory. You can look up contact information for your federal representative / MP on the Parliament website. Use the links below to find contact information for your provincial/territorial representatives: For this year's Autistic Acceptance Month, Autistics United Fort McMurray chapter organizer Christopher Whelan has written a series of short essays on autistic rights. We have selected a few of our favourites to share!  [Image description: An Alternative and Augmentative Communication placard with signs for various food and drink related words] Normalize Alternative Communication Traditional methods of communication, like spoken word, are often inaccessible to autistic people. Some autistics do not speak. Of those autistics who can speak, many of us find spoken word to be overwhelming to our senses and uncomfortable to do for long periods of time, if at all. Some members of our population go into “non-verbal space” and are drained of their capacity for spoken word when they are in sensory overload. While speech language pathology is often prescribed for autistics that are disabled in spoken communication, and can be very helpful in bridging communication needs, normalizing mandatory speech rehabilitation as a default prescription is not inclusive or in the spirit of Autism Acceptance. Speech language pathology is a barrier to place on an autistic person as it is an extracurricular exercise they must take in order to accommodate typical society. Instead of placing the onus to “make up” for their disability on the disabled, we must make society more inclusive of the needs of people disabled by communication demands. To achieve accessibility of communication, alternative communication must be widely understood and normalized. Alternative communication can come in the form of sign language, hand signals, writing, typing, symbols, pictures, and Alternative and Augmentative Communication as shown in the placard above. Alternative communication can be its own language, agreed upon by people who have never met each other, such as American Sign Language or written language, or it can be as simple as a hand gesture privately shared between two people who know each other. Autistics call for the expansion of alternative communication so that more people are familiar with these communication styles and can reciprocate communication with them. Alternative communication must be normalized and held in the same regard as if the person using it was speaking. Other select essays:
Christopher Whelan is an autistic social worker living and working in his home community of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Christopher is a founder of Neurodiversity YMM and Autistics United Fort McMurray – Cree, Dene, Dane-zaa, & Métis Territory. After months of consultation with autistic self-advocates, Christopher published The 95 Theses of Neurodiversity in April 2020. You can read more of his work on his blog, AutisticRights.net. For this year's Autistic Acceptance Month, Autistics United Fort McMurray chapter organizer Christopher Whelan has written a series of short essays on autistic rights. We have selected a few of our favourites to share!  [Image description, a black button with white words “quiet hands”, with the “quiet” crossed out to say “loud” in multiple colours] All ABA Hurts Autistics Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) therapy is the practice of converting autistic behaviour into neurotypical behaviours through the documentation and evaluation of behaviour and then re-directing it to more acceptable expressions. It has had a traumatizing effect on autistic people, and the communal trauma of this still-prescribed therapy reverberates throughout the autistic community. As well as being linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in adults, ABA does not produce results in shaping behaviour except for facilitating shame, despair, and self-harm. ABA, as its founder Ivar Lovaas had envisioned and practiced it, utilizes torture implements against people who exhibit autistic behaviour, open-hand violence, and denying subjects food and sleep until they stop exhibiting autistic behaviours. Lovaas-styled ABA is still practiced today around the world, closer to home than anyone would like to believe. While the use of aversive-based therapies are a clear example of anti-autistic violence, we must also challenge the idea that the new “Gentle ABA”, which is gaining traction in the West as a referred therapy for autistic people, is a reformed and gentle version of its original namesake. Instead of using torture and aversives to convert autistic behaviour into neurotypical behaviour, it is instead achieved through incentivizing neurotypical behaviour. Subjects are given candy, playtime, and other rewards for exhibiting acceptable learned neurotypical behaviours instead of the expressions that come most naturally to them. Instead of being punished for appearing autistic, they are rewarded for appearing neurotypical. That is why “Gentle ABA” does not produce results. It does not re-direct behaviour. It encourages us to appear a certain way, temporarily. Neurodivergent circles use the term “Masking” to describe incidences where we must appear to be neurotypical in order to meet our basic needs, be safe from harassment and bullying, and be treated as an equal in society. Quietly sitting in place when we want to run around a room screaming, and keeping quiet when we want to say our favourite words and talk about our special interests, are examples of Masking. Masking is inherently both harmful and necessary in our world. Gentle ABA incentivizes autistic people to wear their Mask more tightly and more often, even in their own homes when nobody would think less of them for exhibiting autistic behaviour. But the longer you Mask, the more susceptible you are to low self-esteem and mental unwellness. By internalizing that what you naturally are is sinful, bothersome, and a burden to the people around you, you wish harm on yourself. Autistics who naturalize their own Mask, and wear it too often, are more prone to developing addiction, self-harm behaviours, suicidal thoughts, and to attempt suicide. People who did not know that they were autistic also report that having naturalized their Mask lead to these harmful experiences. Autism Acceptance means normalizing autistic behaviour in society. It means a guarantee that autistic people will not be considered lesser than a neurotypical person or lesser than an autistic who exhibits atypical behaviours less frequently. It means working towards a society where we will not need to mask to keep ourselves safe, and disenfranchising therapy programs that incentivize masking. Other select essays:
--- Christopher Whelan is an autistic social worker living and working in his home community of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Christopher is a founder of Neurodiversity YMM and Autistics United Fort McMurray – Cree, Dene, Dane-zaa, & Métis Territory. After months of consultation with autistic self-advocates, Christopher published The 95 Theses of Neurodiversity in April 2020. You can read more of his work on his blog, AutisticRights.net. For this year's Autistic Acceptance Month, Autistics United Fort McMurray chapter organizer Christopher Whelan has written a series of short essays on autistic rights. We have selected a few of our favourites to share!  [Image description: a plate of chicken nuggets, fries, and two dipping sauces, one golden brown and one white]
Safefood: The Medicinal Properties of Chicken Nuggets Every culture in the world recognizes the healing power of food. The confidence and optimism for the day you feel when you eat a breakfast full of nutrients. The emotional healing that a bowl of ice cream after a bad day brings you. Families growing their connections to each other by eating dinner at the table together. The comfort of your favourite meal, cooked by your mom. There is nothing in the world so disastrous to a person that good food cannot help you heal from, if only just give you a temporary break from all your other stimulus. Autistics have a very special connection with food. We develop personal relationships with it. Our favourite foods are not just comforting to us; they are as important to us as every other comfort item we fall back into when our world becomes too overstimulating. Our favourite foods are our stability and our safety. Autistic culture has coined two terms to describe our relationships with our favourite food: safefood and samefood. Safefood is a food that brings us joy, comfort, and peace when we eat it. Samefood is a food that we have grown so attached to that we can, or do, eat it every day. It is very normal for safefood to also be samefood. Because different autistic people have different sensory profiles for what we can tolerate and what excites us, safefood is not universal. An autistic person who has a low tolerance for stimulation might prefer food with soft textures, like Kraft Dinner, mini pizzas, and chicken nuggets. An autistic person who needs lots of stimulation to feel anything may enjoy a bowl of mapo tofu, hot wings, or kimchi more than most people and have that as their safefood/samefood. But once we have developed that personal connection with a dish, that bond is hard to break and really should not be tampered with as it is a mental health support. The dish, once we find one that comforts us, should always be prepared in the same way. It should be the same brand, the same ingredients, and the same chef. If this routine can be maintained, the highest comfort for an autistic person follows. Nothing is worse than our safefood/samefood having its recipe changed, or it being taken off of grocery store shelves. Right now during the COVID-19 state of emergency, I have relied on my safefoods, like teriyaki rice bowls, cheddar broccoli pasta, and mini pizzas for emotional support as the lockdown has interrupted nearly every other one of my comforting routines. Having this food is directly tied to my mental health. If something ever interrupted my ability to make cheddar broccoli pasta, that is my brain's signal that the world is ending and I am in danger. But if I can make a cheesy, fresh bowl of creamy pasta any time I want, my brain knows that everything in my world is going to be okay. I am safe. Other select essays:
--- Christopher Whelan is an autistic social worker living and working in his home community of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Christopher is a founder of Neurodiversity YMM and Autistics United Fort McMurray – Cree, Dene, Dane-zaa, & Métis Territory. After months of consultation with autistic self-advocates, Christopher published The 95 Theses of Neurodiversity in April 2020. You can read more of his work on his blog, AutisticRights.net. |
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