Law enforcement news:
- David M. Perry on the criminalization of schoolchildren’s meltdowns
- And (same reporter) on police violence in Chicago and being black and disabled
- A new report says 1 in 5 autistic young people in Ontario have interacted with the police in the last 18 months. In a third of those interactions, the police made things worse.
Media and reviews:
- John Wiswell reminds us that evil isn’t a disability
- Kelly Robson on why her futures include disability
Australian politics:
- Karen R Fisher and Sally Robinson unpack the role of disability in the Australian census
- An Australian politician raised eyebrows by saying that all autistic students should be segregated
Canadian politics:
- The first ever Disability Pride parade in British Columbia, Canada:
- The Human Rights Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Canada, says that most of the complaints they receive are about accessibility
- Andrew Russell and Brian Hill on how Canada’s immigration system discriminates against disabled immigrants and their families
Jobs:
- M. Kelter interviews Art Shectman about Ultra Testing, a tech firm that hires autistic employees
- Another company, EY, is also getting into the business of autistic hiring
On stereotypes and prejudice:
- Pascale Tosquano on the ideas of special treatment and positive stereotyping
- Martha Rose Saunders explains in great depth how all of the diagnostic criteria for autism can apply to a person who doesn’t “look [stereoptyically] autistic“
- Kerima Cevik on how people can pay lip service to acceptance while still insisting that they don’t have to accept their own child
- Real Social Skills on how a stereotype can be both positive and dehumanizing
Misc:
- Sonia Boue on autistic leadership
- A new study says autistic people make certain kinds of comparisons more rationally than NTs
- There is a new word for autism in Maori
Sad Things:
- Montgomery Cal on why disabled people in the US are protesting the proposed removal of Medicaid
- Kris Guin on being autistic, LGBT, and homeless