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.
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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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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…