medication
Neuroqueer: Depathologising psychiatric "conditions"
A consideration on how neuroqueer theory can be used to depathologise the field of psychiatry and psychiatric conditions.
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Addiction
Addiction doesn't strip us of our humanity
Why are addicts stripped of their humanity by society at large? What can we do about it? Are cultural attitudes towards addicts understandable? This article attempts to answer these in brief.
Neuroqueering
Neuroqueer: Gender Identity and Autistic Embodiment
This article looks at neuroqueer theory and the Autistic embodiment of gender. It considers how one might construct their gender, and how being Autistic queers our ideas of gender.
Trauma
Autistic people and the burnout-psychosis cycle
Trigger Warning: This article discusses burnout and psychosis While it is evident to myself and my colleagues that Autistic people have a predisposition towards psychotic phenomenon, it seems to be a relatively new discovery to many of the mental health professionals I have talked to. Research that is non pathological
Autistic Rights
Neuroqueer: An introduction to theory
This article was Co-Authored by David Gray-Hammond, Katie Munday, and Tanya Adkin The emergence and popularisation of Neuroqueer theory in the contemporary disability rights discourse and Autistic rights movement represents a significant step forward. Not only does it encourage pride in ones true self, but it emancipates the Neurologically Queer
Psychosis
Back to the corner: Psychoactive drug use, my Autistic experience
Some 4(ish) years ago, my debut blog post on this website was Standing on the corner: Where autism and addiction meet shortly covered by Recovery services as an Autistic adult. Back then My writing was merely an attempt to scream into the void, offloading my frustrations. Little did i
Neuroqueering
Autism "cure" culture and normative violence
TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains detailed discussion of harmful "cures". It also mentions ABA, MMS, Chelation, and has in depth discussion around normative society and the murder of Autistic people. For as long as I have been an advocate, many of my fellow Autistics have spoken out against
Neuroqueer Theory
ABA: Essentialism in practice
For as long as I have been part of the online Autistic community, we have spoken out against and educated on the topic of the harms of Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA). While I could discuss the real world trauma and attitudes that proceed and preceed ABA respectively, today I'
Autism
I'm not Asocial, I'm AuSocial: Conceptualising Autistic sociality and culture
Being Autistic is a nightmare (sometimes, actually, a lot of the time). This isn't because being Autistic is inherently good or bad, but rather because we are a minority group, and as such experience direct and indirect oppression from the privileged majority. Given that the world is designed
Autism
Neuroqueer theory and the Self
When considering our potential, we often think in finite terms. Normativity has dictated that which a human can be. We are also bound, in principle, by the finite nature of our mortality. Thus, we are limited by both cultural and biological variables. However, the limits of what a human, a
Autistic Community
More on Zeno's Paradoxes and the issues with Autistic to non-Autistic communication
As you may have noticed from my most recent blog post, I am somewhat down a rabbit hole at the moment. In my previous article I discussed Zeno's paradox of plurality and how it applies to the dehumanisation of Autistic people and the double empathy problem. Today I
disability
The Zeno paradox of autism: Is this the root of the double empathy problem?
This was inspired by the book "Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness" by Remi Yergeau. The double empathy problem, so named, is the title given to the seeming appearance of deficits in communication in Autistic people. The double empathy problem states that Autistic people do not have