Resources

Blogs:

• Radical Neurodivergence Speaking
• Determined Arrow (formerly, Fullmetal Heart)
• Unstrange Mind
• The Bullshit Fairy
• We Are Like Your Child
• Non-Speaking Autistic Speaking
• Michelle Sutton Writes – Hello Michelle Swan on Facebook
• Neurocosmopolitanism – Nick Walker’s Notes on Neurodiversity, Autism, and Cognitive Liberty
• Emma’s Hope Book – Living Being Autistic
• Identity-First Autistic – This site is no longer online and someone has bought the domain and is blogging about something totally unrelated.
• Parenting Autistic Children with Love and Acceptance

Specific Blog Links:

• Autism and Emotional Labour
• New Autism Speaks Master Post – updated 09/16/19 – huge resource on what is wrong with this organization from The Autistic Captioner (formerly known as The Caffeinated Autistic)
• What Is Autism?
• More Problems with Functioning Labels
• What is Wrong with Functioning Labels? (From Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance. Here is the version on their FB page.)
• “Light It Up Blue is Bad and This is Why
• Blue Lights Won’t Help Me from Hello Michelle Swan
• Face the Truth: What you Really mean when you say “low functioning”
• What’s Wrong with Functioning Labels? A Master Post It looks like while some links here work, others are no longer in service. As I have time, I will try to collate a new list out of the ones that do work to share here.

Facebook Pages:

• Parenting Autistic Children with Love and Acceptance
• We Are Like Your Child
• Ollibean
• Hello Michelle Swan
• Radical Neurodivergence Speaking

Activism/Related:

• Boycott Autism Speaks (there is a wealth of resources here to explain why we boycott them)
• Walk in Red (don’t light it up blue)
• Autism Acceptance Month – Acceptance is an Action
• Autism Hall of Shame or Fame – Not activism in and of itself, but created to help with boycotts against companies, celebrities, politicians, et cetera, who support/partner with Autism Speaks.
• Disability Day of Mourning – Remembering the Disabled Murdered by Caregivers

Other:

• Autism Women & Nonbinary Network
• Ollibean – a dynamic community of parents, families and advocates in the disability community working together for a more socially just, accessible and inclusive world.

Resource Lists updated 7 March 2024.