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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Pittsburgh Steelers are hosting a political event at their restaurant, Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, near Heinz Field. Candidates are seeking the endorsement of the Steel City Stonewall Democrats, a group that represents LGBTQ Democrats in Pittsburgh.
#2 Autism has been around as long as humans have, but it was a narrowly defined condition until very recently. It was first diagnosed in 1912 as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia.
#3 The DSM-5, published in 2013, changed the definition of autism to include more symptoms, and therefore, more people could be diagnosed with it.
#4 I am a beneficiary of the changes brought about by the ADA and IDEA. I was born in 1990, the year the ADA was passed, and the changes to IDEA were made around the time my family moved to Wisconsin. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome when I was a college student.

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Politique

Psychopathology

Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	13 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669352976
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The Pittsburgh Steelers are hosting a political event at their restaurant, Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, near Heinz Field. Candidates are seeking the endorsement of the Steel City Stonewall Democrats, a group that represents LGBTQ Democrats in Pittsburgh.

#2

Autism has been around as long as humans have, but it was a narrowly defined condition until very recently. It was first diagnosed in 1912 as a symptom of childhood schizophrenia.

#3

The DSM-5, published in 2013, changed the definition of autism to include more symptoms, and therefore, more people could be diagnosed with it.

#4

I am a beneficiary of the changes brought about by the ADA and IDEA. I was born in 1990, the year the ADA was passed, and the changes to IDEA were made around the time my family moved to Wisconsin. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome when I was a college student.

#5

I became interested in politics because I realized that I get to report in the halls of Capitol Hill because of the work of disabled activists who literally crawled up the steps of that very building to help pass the ADA.

#6

Until the 1990s, when advocacy groups began to include autistic people in their efforts, much of the political advocacy for autism was done without their input.

#7

The tension between parent advocacy and self-advocacy exists today because of the origins of autism advocacy in the 1970s. In the early 1970s, parents wanted to take back power from doctors and psychiatrists who had been blaming them for their children’s autism for years.

#8

While parent groups were instrumental in the founding of the disability rights movement, autistic people themselves have largely missed out on it because they’ve been focused on by parent advocates instead of themselves.

#9

Many parents have been able to justify the treatment their children require, such as putting them on diets or giving them bleach, because it’s for their own good. But this parent-centered focus on autism has allowed parents to justify subjecting their children to other heinous treatment.

#10

The Judge Rotenberg Center’s defenders were mainly parents for many years, until a 2008 profile in Boston magazine featured a hearing with a parent named Eddie Sanchez, who said his son would be dead if it weren’t for the program.

#11

Another theory that was pushed by Rimland was that of British physician Andrew Wakefield, who in 1998 published a study in the Lancet that implied a connection between autism and the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. However, it was later revealed that Wakefield had not disclosed that he been paid by attorneys representing parents of children who had filed lawsuits against companies that made vaccines.

#12

The debate about vaccines and autism has raged on in the twenty-first century, completely divorced from the needs of autistic people.

#13

The fear of becoming a self-narrating zoo exhibit is one reason why I did not want this book to become a memoir. I do not fault other autistic people for writing memoirs, as they were crucial in getting nonautistic audiences to understand that autistic people had agency.

#14

The culture around autism began to change, and in turn, the political rhetoric changed as well. During his last year as president, Obama guest-edited an issue of Wired magazine, in which he talked about what would happen to society if autism was eliminated.