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The Neurodiversity Reader appears twice. The list should be sorted as some books like Loud Hands are outdated and only of interest for historical reasons.

02.12.2025 16:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

which is also correctly extended to disability-selective abortion. The stubborn defense of selective abortion is based on groupthink and ultimately contributes to discrediting the legitimate demand for a woman's right to have an abortion when she is in a very difficult mental situation. 3/3

22.11.2025 07:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Resisting the New Down’s Syndrome Eugenics* ‘Freedom’, wrote the Marxist philosopher Rosa Luxemburg, ‘is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently.’ In her view, being able…

conservatives in an exaggerated way to restrict abortions leads progressives to believe that this argument should have no weight at all, which is illogical.

By the way, a few years ago, you rightly criticised sex-selective abortions (medium.com/@robchapman_...), 2/3

22.11.2025 07:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

While I do not agree with the extent to which the author wishes to restrict abortions or with how much she values the life of the fetus, she has a point in arguing that progressives are too fast to reject the life argument. This constitutes a genetic fallacy: The life argument being used by 1/3

22.11.2025 07:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

For what precise reason were you removed? Being removed just for being autistic should be a scandal, and I don't see why that would happen as there are many autistic people in autism research.

30.09.2025 06:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Der völkische Antikapitalist Björn Höcke: Ein exklusiver Buchauszug Björn Höckes Rhetorik erinnert strukturell an den antisemitischen Antikapitalismus der antiliberalen »Konservativen Revolution« und der Nationalsozialisten. Der Journalist Frederik Schindler analysier...

Björn Höcke of the German AfD (who is said by some to be the most influential politician in the party, even though he is not its leader) is an anti-capitalist: www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/der-...

21.09.2025 11:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shouldn't it be "diagnosed as autistic and as having OCD"? "Diagnosed autistic" is grammatically wrong, as far as I know.

04.09.2025 04:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I appreciate that you speak out against eugenics instead of being taken in by the lie that being pro-choice means you cannot be against eugenics. Most societies also wouldn't accept prenatal/preimplantational selection against women, black, or homosexual people.

24.07.2025 09:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't Mourn for Us: The Autistic Life of Jim Sinclair and an Extraordinary Story of Neurodiversity Amazon.com: Don't Mourn for Us: The Autistic Life of Jim Sinclair and an Extraordinary Story of Neurodiversity: 9798338391297: Dinh, Ann: Books

@autisticbooks.bsky.social, is this book real or fake: www.amazon.com/Dont-Mourn-U...

12.07.2025 06:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
About autism – Autism Europe

Which describes autism with words like "deficits", "symptoms", "cure" etc.: www.autismeurope.org/about-autism/

16.05.2025 05:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, but research into how environments can be improved is important, not how autistic people can be pressed into current society with biomedical methods.

05.05.2025 06:47 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

#AutINSAR having to rely on illegal or borderline illegal ways to access non-open source papers/books.

05.05.2025 06:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#AutINSAR A3: eugenics, prenatal testing/embryo selection, "curing" autism in utero or in children because parents hate them; calling eugenics a matter of women's rights like TERFs attack trans people.

05.05.2025 06:39 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

DW Learn German. Publicly available vocabulary flashcard sets for a spaced repetition app are also highly effective. Apps like Duolingo are often only for beginners and a waste of time.

30.04.2025 06:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please also publish a German edition, there are almost no neurodiversity books in German.

26.04.2025 09:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The genetic mystery of why some people develop autism Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.

Sue Fletcher-Watson says people call desired treatments for intellectual disability treatments for autism because there is more research funding and parent campaigning for autism. What do you think about that?
www.bbc.com/future/artic....

20.04.2025 06:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The English language also didn't have neurodiversity-affirming language before people started using it, so I don't really see this as a reason not to use it. There are books in German that use "Neurodivergenz". Disease/illness means "Krankheit"/"Erkrankung" in German and he said "Krankheit".

12.04.2025 06:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He embraces neurodiversity but still called autism a "disease". It seems like he doesn't really understand the neurodiversity paradigm.

11.04.2025 05:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you for the detailed response.

24.03.2025 05:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It would be helpful to know what these alternatives are and to promote them more explicitly because it is often said that ABA is the gold standard and only criticizing it with vague mentions of better solutions will not lead to meaningful change in my view.

23.03.2025 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It seems more that some experienced users used to viewing autism through the medical model lens (which was the standard until recently) are resisting changes as some of those who revert changes are extended confirmed users.

13.03.2025 06:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

weil das authentische Selbst versteckt wird, um sich an eine neurotypische Norm anzupassen. 2/2

27.02.2025 07:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Der Leidensdruck entsteht aber nicht inhärent durch den Autismus, sondern in Wechselwirkung mit der Umgebung (soziales Behinderungsmodell). Diese "Kompensationsstrategien" heißen Masking und führen zu psychischen Problemen, 1/2

27.02.2025 07:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Lobbying Autism’s Diagnostic Revision in the DSM-5 From 2009 to 2012, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) advocated to influence the DSM-5’s revision of the diagnostic criteria for autism. ASAN succeeded in substantially influencing the fi...

dass eine Diagnose im DSM auch dann gestellt wird, wenn die Kriterien in der Vergangenheit erfüllt waren, aber weiterhin Unterstützungsbedarfe bestehen: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

27.02.2025 06:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lobbying Autism’s Diagnostic Revision in the DSM-5 From 2009 to 2012, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) advocated to influence the DSM-5’s revision of the diagnostic criteria for autism. ASAN succeeded in substantially influencing the fi...

Es gibt unterschiedliche Positionen zum Thema "losing one's diagnosis". Das ASAN vertritt die Position, dass es sich dabei nur um Masking handelt und hat, wenn ich die folgende Quelle richtig in Erinnerung habe, erreicht, 1/2

27.02.2025 06:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
About autism – Autism Europe

Autism Europe describes autism in a catastrophic way ("symptoms", "deficits", "cure", etc.) and recommends behavioral interventions: www.autismeurope.org/about-autism/

18.02.2025 06:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
About autism – Autism Europe

Autism Europe describes autism in a catastrophic way ("symptoms", "deficits", "cure", etc.): www.autismeurope.org/about-autism/

15.02.2025 05:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Isn't it time for a new anthology? Loud Hands is outdated.

18.12.2024 06:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I still haven't understood why I shall not call you Katie because you use the name yourself.

18.12.2024 06:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Talk:Autism - Wikipedia

He wrote elsewhere that he is worried the ND movement erases the harms of autistic people, commits to Anti-Psychiatry views and science-denial in general: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Au...

15.12.2024 07:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0