It's starting to feel like another day, another article or media piece to be frustrated with. Maybe this is a sign of my increasing awareness, and unwillingness to let things slide. Awhile back I read a piece in The New Yorker called Seeing The Spectrum: A New History of Autism by Steven Shapin. The art … Continue reading My Eyes Aren’t Mirrors
Author: Limbic Noodle
People on the Asperger’s / autism spectrum are *not* “undomesticated humans”
The psychology tradition of treating autistic people as less than human clearly continues in modern psychology.
Recently, a lovely commenter and friend (whose identity I won’t mention here, unless given specific permission to do so) notified me of an article published in Psychology Today, by a certain “Dr” Christopher Badcock, that made the bold claim that “autistics” are “undomesticated humans”. Although I had seen the article when it first appeared and mentally spouted off a hot, snarky retort back then, vowing to write a post about it at some point, time intervened, and the post had gone unwritten.
Until today.
My amazing friend deserves the all the credit for this post (thank you!!), because they rekindled the fire not only by providing a link to the article, but also encouraging me to write a rebuttal.
And so it is.
Note to the psychology/psychiatry “experts”: we need to get one thing straight, right now: people “with” Asperger’s/autism are not – and I repeat: not – “undomesticated humans”.
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Content Warning: Murder of People with Disabilities To mark Disability Day of Mourning, I published a blog on my Blog Spot account last March 1st. I thought I'd continue this tradition on my Word Press account. It would be nice to say things have drastically improved in the year since the last Day of Mourning. … Continue reading Disability Day of Mourning, 2017
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