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The Cornell 7 Are Not An Aberration
Who is Jane Doe, and how do we provide her with justice?
The reason an institution like Cornell chooses to handle a case like Jane Doe vs the Cornell 7 internally has nothing to do with fairness, or protecting boys’ reputations, or even protecting the reputation of the institution. The reason is that institutions like Cornell are specifically designed to manufacture injustice, while obscuring that motive from…
tōjisha kenkyū: an overview
two or more autistic people, in collaboration with a clinician, in a non-hierarchical relationship. a good model — building meaning from the inside out — instead of being handed a pronouncement from above.
Autism & Accountability
How do we talk about repair, and who’s capable, in 500 characters?
“All autistic people can learn to be accountable for their actions, and to say otherwise is infantalizing and ableist.” Many variations on this theme are making their way through the platforms currently. While on the surface it appears well-meaning and affirming, it’s worth stepping back and considering the claim at face value, and how it…
Autistic Traits Are A Spectrum of Needs: Who Gets To Access Care?
What an ASD diagnosis actually buys you, depending on where you live, and your tax bracket
A diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder is often talked about as an endpoint — the thing a family or an adult has been chasing through waitlists and evaluations, the moment the puzzle finally has a name. But the diagnosis itself is an arbitrary designation. It’s useful for understanding needs. Whether it opens access to accommodation,…
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So Autism is Genetic: What Does That Settle?
Population as Organism: Epigenetics, Neurodiversity, and the Problem of the Individual
The Western neuroscience community has recently taken to saying that autism is genetic — a corrective, and a welcome one, to public claims, made from positions of real institutional power, that environmental exposure is the primary driver of rising diagnosis rates. The rebuttal leans on heritability: family studies put the heritable component of autism around…
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A Neurodiversity-Affirming Code of Ethics for Online Participation
Articulated as personal responsibility — what I hold myself to, not a standard imposed on others. The online public space serves overlapping, non-competing functions — information exchange, community formation, identity articulation, advocacy, and low-cost contact for people otherwise isolated by geography, access, or circumstance. No single function is the “real” one that the others distract…
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From the Inside Out
A Reading List in the Spirit of Tōjisha-Kenkyū · 当事者研究
Within Tōjisha-kenkyū lies the potential of rearranging the relationship between the tōjisha (the person with lived experience of the condition being studied) and the specialist — in other words, between experienced knowledge and specialized knowledge. . . . The mutual respect from the tōjisha and the specialist for each other’s knowledge, along with the collaborative…
what i brought with me
ever since i was young, i’ve felt like i was from a different culture, and was dropped into this one by a stork. somewhere along the way, i decided to stick by this, and honor the integrity of my original culture, and not get too deep into this dominant culture that i still feel like…