They're opposed on mostly everything but the one thing they've always agreed on is vaccines. Pretty sure they've cosigned onto other letters before, including this past year, but this isn't too surprising imo. The situation is, however, dire.

8-If Hans Asperger had never been confirmed a nazi (or confirmed to strictly not be one), I feel like you'd still see people refer to themselves as aspies and support the Asperger's label. Especially given how many other sublabels ppl use that are literally just new age functioning labels.

I owe yall 2 of these now almost two months later.

7-NeuroTribes is a good book overall but it has tons of problems. All due respect to Steve but I feel like he missed out on a lot. There need to be more books about autism history (esp neurodiversity movement).

More than 50? Closer to 30 unless there’s something crucial I’ve missed.

I’m not sure anything can top autistics(.)org. It did such a great job of platforming peoples’ writings (many of which being extremely good) and the site owners also used it to help people out when they needed it-like materially help them. It was also often hilarious.

Waiting to eat at passover seders was very trying as a kid lol.

(I will say the internet appears to be catching up though)
6-There isn’t a simple term that doesn’t just end up being reductive in some way to describe someone’s experience of disability. This is why HSN/MSN/LSN have become the new age functioning labels.

5-It’s pretty wild how little accurate documentation there is of Jim Sinclair

4-FC and RPM are valid and can be very helpful for people but their field is far from its problems that it seriously needs to address if they wish to be taken seriously vs. being written off as fraudulent

3-A$ is still bad but they've become laughably irrelevant at this point, especially in the face of the current administration.

2-I’m not really a fan of the disability pride flag. It’s better than the original but I’m still not sure why they chose the colors they did for each disability represented. I also just don’t much care for the commodification of disability pride in general. Call me a scrooge but….yeah.

1-The I/DD-led Self-Advocacy Movement deserves much more recognition than they get

I can’t say I do bc I wasn’t actually there, I just time traveled as I like to say

There were definitely Israeli folks involved back in the 90s like Sola Shelley and a guy named Smadar. Possibly more, I just know those. I agree with Esther.

We REALLY need ACs back. I use it in my little corner but I'm not an influencer of any kind lol.

Also yeah, I think whatever you call the main strand of the ND movement is still really Jewish. The early days were very Jewish in particular.

His name is Steve Vitale. He's an animator and has a facebook page that includes the frames he worked on in Lower Decks.

Will report back if she shares any photos with me of her Moopsy setup

@shannonrosa.bsky.social @feliscorvus.bsky.social

I write letters and numbers with my eyes and it kinda looks like blinking.