Resources! Updated Jan. 2, 2016

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Can be found here on my blog

INFORMATION 

The
majority of these are autism-related, but there are some other
disability-related resources listed. Many of these have both Facebook
pages, other social media, and websites, and I haven’t provided all
of the outlets for all of the pages.  Feel free to share these
links/the
link to my resource page.
I wrote only a handful of them myself, so if you credit anyone,
please do so from the original source.

Some
links will take you to specific posts/writings from blogs I have
posted on here. Some links are in multiple categories. If you have
suggestions for better organization/categories, tell me! If links are
broken, tell me. If you have problems with information in the links,
tell me. I try very hard to give
out accurate
and useful information.

Not
of all these have links yet. This is a significant work in progress.

BEING
AUTISTIC and AUTISTIC CULTURE (By primarily Autistic people, both
blogs and posts):

The
Celebration of Autism
by Amythest Schaber

Brief
Thoughts on Stimming & Culture by
Kit Mead: A
brief discussion of stimming as an austitic adult, weaving in a
fictional character of the author’s.

Socializing
As an Autistic: a
short piece on second-guessing and social anxiety.

Autistic
Culture by
Larkin Taylor-Parker: on
the beauty, pain, and struggles of Autistic culture, and how it
needs to grow.

A
Short Reminder For Autistic Peopleby
Lipstick-Autistic: a
few sentences reminding you that “Autistic self-love matters.”

This
is Autism Flash Blog sponsored
by Boycott Autism Speaks: a
compilation of Autistic people speaking about what their autism is,
rather than what Autism Speaks claims it is.

Love
Not Fear Flash Blog:
sponsored by Boycott Autism Speaks: a
compilation of Autistic people speaking about love, support and why
autism is not something to be feared in response to Autism Speaks.

Brief
Definitions of Empathy Types by
Lipstick-Autistic: explaining
in concise terms the three types of empathy in people. Autistics can
have any or a combination of these empathy types.

Sh*t
People Say to Autistic People (video): YouTube
video explaining what Autistic people have to deal with from people
who are not autistic in terms of what people to say to us. Trigger
warnings for ableism and the slurs used against Autistic people.

The
Obsessive Joy of Autism by
Julia Bascom: on
the beauty of obsessions, and more than just that: Autistic
happiness.

Don’t
Mourn for Us by
Jim Sinclair: on
our existence not being a tragedy, and what we feel when you say you
want a cure for autism.

Tumblr
Tag: actuallyautistic (please
do not post in this tag unless you are Autistic)

Loud
Hands: Autistic People, Speaking compiled
by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (Book): this
book is a collection of Autistic experiences by various individuals.
See The
Loud Hands Project

Speak
for Yourself: A Call to Action by
Larkin Taylor-Parker: written
in 2011 and a call for Autistic people to speak out. Trigger
warnings for discussions of ableism.

I
Once Had A Neurotypical Tell Me: A
blog on what neurotypicals say to Autistic people, other disabled
people, people with mental illness, or otherwise neurodivergent
people. May be triggering in some of the things that get to said to
people.

I
Will Not Have Quiet Hands (poem) by
Kit Mead: a
poem on the beauty of loud hands.

Messages
from the Art Roomby
Kit Mead: a
short piece on a safe place in high school, and how “neurotypical”
shouldn’t be forced on Autistic people. Talks about ableism and
was written for the #StopCombatingMe flash blog (against a bill that
authorizes funding for the Combating
Autism Act;
another shorter explanation is here)

The
Way We Move (poem) by
Kit Mead: a
poem on discovering Autistic advocacy and community.

Balancing
Act – a ramble by
Kit Mead: on
the difficulty of conversation and a fine balance between social
skills training and damaging Autistic people.

Autistic
Pride and What You Need To Know by Kit Mead: for
Autistics Speaking Day 2014

Welcome
to the Autistic Community Booklet (ASAN)

Autistic
Women Welcome Packet (AWN)

BLOGS
AND
PEOPLE I LIKE (Mostly
autistic bloggers, but not all, and not a full list yet)

Traveling
Show

Lemon
Peel

Just
Being Me… Who Needs Normalcy, Anyway

The
Black Autist 

Neurowonderful

Just
Stimming

The
Digital Hyperlexic

Autistic
Academic

Emma’s
Hope Book

Autistic
Hoya

Cracked
Mirror in Shalott

Non
Speaking Autistic Speaking

Unstrange
Mind

Chavisory

Real
Social Skills

Ramp
Your Voice by
Vilissa Thompson

Disability
Visibility Project by
Alice Wong

Words
I Wheel By
by Emily Ladau

That
Crazy Crippled Chick
by Cara Liebowitz

Diary
of a Mom

The
Autism Wars

Left
Brain Right Brain

Squidalicious

This
Mess

ADVOCACY
PAGES AND GROUPS I
LIKE

The
Unpuzzled Project: “The
Unpuzzled Project seeks to connect individuals on the Autism
Spectrum with resources that help them to make connections with
other Autistic people, advocate for themselves, live the lives they
want to live, and spread the message of autism acceptance.”

The
Loud Hands Project :
“The
Loud Hands Project is
a publishing effort by the Autistic
Self Advocacy Network.
We raised money towards the creation of our first and foundational
anthology (Loud
Hands: Autistic People, Speaking).”

Autistics
Speaking Day Facebook page: November
1 every year is Autistics Speaking Day, in which Autistic people
speak together about their experiences: “Autistic people
everywhere are communicating online. Listen to them.”

Ollibean: “Ollibean
connects families, self-advocates, & professionals in the
cross-disability community to help create online and offline
communities in order to help us all make informed decisions, share
stories and work together to create a more socially just, inclusive
world.

Queerability (Facebook): “Queerability
seeks to increase the visibility of LGBTQ disabled people by
honoring the intersectionality of the disability and LGBTQ
experience.”

Queerability (Tumblr)

Autism
Women’s Network (Website): “AWN
is directed by & for Autistic women – providing community &
resources for women & girls of all ages.”

Autism
Women’s Network (Facebook)

Autism
Women’s Network (Tumblr)

The
Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism:“Thinking
Person’s Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we’d had
when autism first became part of our lives: a one-stop source for
carefully curated, evidence-based information from autism parents,
autistics, and autism professionals.”

Parenting
Autistic Children with Love and Acceptance

Autonomous
Press

NOS
Magazine

Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law

Respectfully
Connected: Journeys in Parenting and Neurodivergence

ABOUT
AUTISM, ALLIES, AND INFORMATION FOR ALLIES (Resources for parents,
friends, relatives, acquaintances, those wanting to get involved, or
those wanting to begin educating others… primarily on autism):

ASAN’s
About Autism Page: pretty
self-explanatory.

Autistic
Women Welcome Packet for Parents (AWN)

Meltdowns:
Reduce them in the ones you love by
tumblr user lsyikan

Diary
of a Mom: in
her own words, not an expert on autism, but the proud mom of someone
who is

Letters
to Autistic Kids

Parenting
Autistic Children with Love and Acceptance: “A
community for parents of Autistic children who choose to love and
accept their Autistic children. A place to learn from the writing of
Autistic adults. A place where parents can discuss supporting and
accommodating Autistic children.”

No
Stereotypes Here: Functioning Labels

Body/Mind
Disconnect (Emma’s
Hope Book)

How
to Differentiate Between Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
(*SARCASM/SATIRE*): Sarcastic/satirical
piece on the fact that Asperger’s and Autism are… shockingly
(sarcasm there) the same thing.

Identifying,
Educating, and Empowering Allies

Love,
Devotion, Hope, Prevention, and Cure by
Mel Baggs

Please,
Don’t Use Labels on Me – And Us 
by Kit Mead: on
the inaccuracy of functioning labels and stigmatization and
mistreatment of Autistic people through functioning labels. Contains
discussion of ableism.

My
Son Doesn’t Need to be Fixed

Autistic
Hoya: FAQ

Definitions
and Terms by
Lydia Brown: this
is a good resource for many terms used in disability advocacy.

Ableist
Terms by
Lydia Brown: words
discriminatory toward disabled people and other neurodivergent
individuals.

Article/post
on how to treat nonverbal individuals: Includes
information on ABA therapy (Applied Behavior Analysis) and generally
treating Autistic people with respect. Trigger warnings for ABA
therapy & ableism discussion.

Ari
Ne’eman of ASAN’s Talk at Emory on Autism and Disability: This
gives a really good, succinct background on disability history and
how it has evolved over time, addresses the social vs. medical
model, and more. Trigger warnings for discussion of eugenics,
ableism, et al.

Tumblr
Tag: actuallyautistic: please
do not write/post in this tag if you know you are not autistic,
though. It’s just a good place to read things by autistic people.
May include triggering posts about a multitude of things.

Autistic
Self-Identity: by
bendingthewillow: Guide
for NT and allistic individuals when referring to autistic people.

15
Things You Should Never Say to Autistics by
Lydia Brown: Title
is the explanation.

Why
I dislike person-first language by
Jim Sinclair: explains
why language such as describing an Autistic person as “a person
with autism” should not be used.

What’s
the difference between high-functioning and low-functioning
autism? At
AWN (there isn’t)

The
Problem With Functioning Labels

AUTISTIC/DISABLED
REPRESENTATION

@iamthethunder​’s
takes on NeuroTribes

Thoughts
on NeuroTribes by Chavisory

Disability
in Kidlit

Compilation
of blog posts on why representation matters (for all identities) by @andreashettle​

GETTING
THROUGH THE WORLD: Tips, Strategies, Things?

Disabled
Learning (blog)

Medication
Management

College
Survival Masterpost (including
anxiety/being stressed, sad)

Hotlines (multiple
regions)

Websites
For When You Need Distractions 

Neurodivergent
Exchange (blog)

Real
Social Skills (blog):
social skills for autonomous people. Covers a variety of topics.

Sensory
Overload and How to Cope by
recovery-community on Tumblr

Navigating
College (ASAN
publication): http://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NavcollFinal.pdf

Executive
Functioning Apps

Time
Management App (useful
for Time Agnosia)

Low
spoons/minimalist minimeals on Reddit

Study
podcasts

Autistic
and Poor: cheap/low
spoons cooking and DIY items for autistic people

How
to caption YouTube videos

Networking
and informational interviews

10
Ways to Refocus for those with ASD/SPD

Is
College Possible?

Sexual
activities while autistic

Spoonie
Student Resources

Text
to Speech apps

Low
spoons gourmet

Autistic
cooking

Emergency
chat now available for Windows!

Under
the table accommodations

INTERSECTIONALITY :

Autistic
Hoya

Advocacy
Without Borders

Ballastexistenz (blog)
by Mel Baggs: “My
name is Mel Baggs — you might know me as Amanda, but I’ve
started going by my middle name again. I am a disabled writer and
artist.  I am cognitively disabled, physically disabled,
chronically ill, developmentally disabled, and psychiatrically
disabled, so I have experience with a lot of different disability
communities.”

Everyday
Ableism (Twitter): records
acts of everyday ableism experienced by disabled individuals.

Hypermobile/Ehlers-Danlos Autistics & other Neurodivergents : Facebook
group for Autistic and other neurodivergent individuals with
Ehlers-Danlos.

Disability
Intersections (website)

But
You Don’t Look Sick

Psychopathy:
Racism and Ableism from the Medical-Industrial Complex by
Lydia Brown

To
Be Queer, Black and “Sick”

Intersected:
Ability, Race, Color, Religion, National Origin, Gender, Sexual
Orientation, Gender Identity (blog)

Navigating
Queer Girl Culture on the Spectrum

Queerability (Tumblr)

Queerability (Facebook)

Feminist
Disability Dialogue

Autism
Women’s Network (Facebook
page)

Autism
Women’s Network (Website)

DIVERgent:
When disability & feminism collide (Run
by AWN)

DIVERgent
Tumblr (more updated than Facebook)

Intersections
Like Me

Dear
White and Other Privileged Friends: or, Toward a Pedagogy of
Unlearning

Autism
Acceptance, by Anonymous

Autism
in Black and White

Race
and Disability

Double
Rainbow – Autism and Race

The
Intersection of Race and Students with Disabilities

5
Tips to make your Pride Events more Inclusive by
Queerability

ASAN
Calls for Neli Latson’s Release: black
Autistic teen
incarcerated
wrongly

Making
Neli Latson Matter: The Invisible Intersected Black Members of The
Autism Community by
Kerima Cevik

The
Black Autist (Page,
blog)

Tips
for intersectional advocacy

That
Crazy Crippled Chick
by Cara Liebowitz

DISABILITY
AND THE ARTS (Zines, submissions-based sites, literary magazines, art
magazines)

Barking
Sycamores

DOCUMENTARIES

Loving Lampposts

Wretches and Jabberers

Who Cares About Kelsey?

Citizen Autistic

Unspoken

IMPORTANT DISABILITY TWITTER
HASHTAGS

NoModernAsylum

TheAbleistScript

IwishICouldveToldYou

TheCostofPassing

JustSayDisability

TheAcceptanceScript

FreeNeli

JusticeForKayleb

TravelingAbleism

SexandDisability

DISABILITY
NEWS AND HISTORY

Disability
in History and Life (blog)
by Kit Mead: a
blog devoted to providing information and facts on the history of
eugenics and sometimes general disability history and current
news. Does not update with longer posts on a speedy basis.

Ari
Ne’eman of ASAN’s Talk at Emory on Autism and Disability

Master
Source List on Eugenics for
Kit Studies Eugenic History: a
list of books and other resources that I use to study the history of
and write about eugenics.

Longmore
Institute on Disability (Tumblr):
the disability studies at San Francisco State University

The
Future (and the Past) of Autism Advocacy by
Ari Ne’eman in Disability Studies Quarterly

The
“Ransom Notes” Affair: When the Neurodiversity Movement Came of
Age in
Disability Studies Quarterly

Disability
Studies Quarterly

Advocacy
Monitor (NCIL)

Fields
of Stones
(on institutional history)

Ghosts
are Scary, Disabled People Are Not: The Troubling Rise of the
“Haunted Asylum”

ON
AUTISM SPEAKS (Autism Speaks is the largest nonprofit “charity”
about autism in the U.S.)

So
What’s the Problem with Autism Speaks?: a
succinct and concise explanation with several key points on why you
should not support Autism Speaks.

An
Autistic Speaks About Autism Speaks

Compilation
of Anti Autism Speaks Post (lots of them): Boycott
Autism Speaks compiled a massive list of essays written against
Autism Speaks.

Autism
Speaks: The Name, the Symbol, the Rhetoric by
Kit Mead

Labels
and Statistics and Autism Speaksby
Kit Mead

Autistic
Self Advocacy Network Flyer on AS

ASAN
+ Other Disability Groups’ Joint Letter to AS’s Sponsors

 We
Have a Place by
Kit Mead

I
Resign my Roles at Autism Speaks by
John Elder Robison: Autism
Speaks’ only Autistic person explains why he resigned in November
2013.

Buts
and Rebuts by Autistic Speaks

It’s
MY Blue at
It’s Bridget’s Word

For
God’s Sake, Stop Speaking at
The Autism Wars

A
Few Selected Autism Speaks Quotes at
autisticshs.blogspot.com

ASAN
statement on Autism Speaks Board Appointments

This
is What They Think: Protesting Autism Speaks

What
it’s Like to Be David

OTHER
CURE CULTURE ASPECTS/VIOLENCE AGAINST DISABLED PEOPLE

ABA
by Sparrow Rose Jones

List
of Murdered Disabled People to Jan. 2014 (tw:
with details)

List
of Murdered Disabled People of Color at
the Autism Wars

When
a Child is Killed by their Parent the word “But” does not apply

Whitewashing
the Brutal Murder of Alex Spourdalakis

ASAN
Day of Mourning 2014

Mourning
and Advocating for Autistic Murder Victim London McCabe

Violent
and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids are Being Pinned Down,
Isolated Against Their Will (article)

Restraint
and Seclusion: Hear Our Stories (video)

Changing
Conversations: When Parents Murder Disabled Children

The
Mommy Blogger Who Tried to Kill Her Autistic Daughter Talks to Dr.
Phil

Would
You Accept This Behavior toward a Non-Autistic Child?

Police
Brutality film (Where is Hope?)

When
Teachers Abuse Disabled Children

Killing
Words by Zoe Gross

ASAN’s
Anti-Filicide Toolkit

The
Judge Rotenberg Center

When
is It Okay to Chain Your Child to a Bed?

THINGS
I AM BAD AT CATEGORIZING

Psychiatric
Medications and Autism

Attributing
Violence to Mental Illness: Making the World Less Safe by
Kit Mead: In
response to both the media and public sentiment about mental illness
and/or disability being the cause of violence. Trigger warnings for
discussion of ableism, sanism, violence, and shootings. Includes
researched study links.

Spoon
theory original
article

Spoon
theory – another
good explanation 

Spoon
theory explanations

Disability
on Disability Discrimination

OTHER
MASTERPOSTS:

Neurowonderful

Traveling
Show

Autistic
Self Advocacy Network Sitemap

Autistic
Hoya

Twist’s
ASD Master Post