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Dedicated To Autism Awareness Day April 2, 2024
Warning: Autistic history, Eunice & more I’m disabled, not a fable For you to present when you need to represent Inclusion to the abled I’m disabled, not differently abled The wordplay attempts to make my existence okay To people who don’t live this way It pretends we have equality while ignoring vast inequity In which…
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The Autism Wars: 1960s Through Today | A Video Series
This series is published to TikTok and re-published on YouTube. The Autism Wars This series takes a look at Autistic History, with an Autistic perspective, through the lens of the Autism Wars that began in the sixties with Bernard Rimland, Ivar Lovaas, parent advocates and Bruno Bettelheim. The autism wars that started in the last…
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AUTISTIC CONSUMER AUDIT OF UC DAVIS MIND INSTITUTE’S MUTANT ANGELMAN MICE AND THEIR TRANSLATIONAL VALUE TOWARD THE HUMAN AUTISTIC EXPERIENCE | JULY 20, 2023
(PDF DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE at link) On March 10, 2022, six researchers in affiliation with the UC Davis MIND Institute published a mouse gait study in the Autism Research journal, the official journal of the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR). Our team of Autistic scientists set about conducting this consumer audit to evaluate any conflict(s) of interest…
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Bruno Bettelheim “A Snake-Oil Salesman Of The First Magnitude” | Timeline & Notes
Notes … Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent the majority of his academic and clinical career in the United States. “Though Jewish by birth, Bettelheim grew up in a secular family. After the Anschluss (political annexation) of Austria on March 13, 1938, the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities sent Austrian Jews and political…
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Fight (You’ll Have To Kill Me First) By Eve Reiland
This is the final in a 3-part series I’m working on related to lived PTSD experiences of fight, flight and freeze. Spoken word version via video soon. Flight, Freeze, Fight [CN: Abuse, PTSD] Fight (You’ll Have To Kill Me First) You’ll have to kill me first Before I quiet again Before I stop making noise, …
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Thirteen Birthdays By Eve Reiland
Thirteen Birthdays I wrote the word deceased today Where it asked for your name On papers for our daughter’s school She’ll be fourteen in a couple of days And all I can think of is your first tattoo Where the doctor stamped your arm With her tiny, born prematurely feet Just moments after she arrived…
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Flight (Under A Stark Raving Moon) By Eve Reiland
This is a piece I wrote describing the experience PTSD and flight. It is really an overlap of several nights, one of them being New Year’s Eve. The photo included here with the captured moon is one I took during one of those flights in downtown Fresno. This is the first in a 3-part series…
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