No idea why the graphic accompanying this link doesn't match the title of the paper!

If you replace the term “special educational needs” with “roughly 20% of all children in the education system” it immediately shows how nonsensical & unworkable these kinds of approaches are. There are no quick fixes. It’s all about embracing complexity, not reducing kids to a homogeneous mass.

But we DO know. There is strong, reliable evidence of no link. Same with autism and vaccines. There is no area of autism research that has been more thoroughly investigated.
This is essentially ableism and misogyny with some batshit anti-science conspiracy thrown in

Hope you are looking after yourself, Monique. I can’t begin to imagine the toll that constantly defending the very right of autistic people to exist must take on you.

This is such an important point. If you’ve spent much of your life being invalidated, how do you develop the self-understanding and self-worth to self-advocate?

It was a fantastic presentation. Both moving and compelling.

Me too! Yesterday was really uncomfortable in so many ways

I’ll look for you, or we could arrange a time and place to meet. Whatever works for you.

I hope to see you, Jon. Happy to listen if talking things through could help.