What do you do when your disabled family member starts telling the world he had a horrible childhood?

What do you do when your disabled family member starts telling the world he had a horrible childhood?
Richard Higgs, an autistic academic at the University of Cape Town, was blocked after asking questions to autism researchers at his own university.
“The autistic community… must be involved at the highest levels… We cannot be kept busy with token consultations while the real decisions are made elsewhere.”
Most people with hearing loss don’t understand Sign Language. Along with them, many autists also benefit from captioning. The NCPD is taking ICASA (South Africa’s broadcasting regulator) to the High Court over its failure to provide a fair Code on captioning.
Nina Fiore of the Astoria Film Festival interviews some of the autistic contributors to LISTEN.
In February 2021 we contributed to LISTEN, a short film made by and with nonspeaking autistic people.
This letter followed a meeting between Tania Melnyczuk and academics who are developing an autism awareness programme. It provides an example of how ABA promotors violate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and mentions the international #BanABA movement.
Resources for a meeting with academics on autism awareness and training.
The UK’s largest autism research project doesn’t align to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
This article is based on an August 2021 interview by Margaret Waweru-Kihara of Netplus with Nairobi-based autistic activist Karen Muriuki.
“I think we owe it to ourselves and others to be diligent with testing our hypothesis,” writes autistic author Benjine Gerber.
“All this drama about Autism Awareness Day is too much. It’s a much hated day by many autistics. I hate it too. Just too patronising for words.”