Freddie deBoer (@freddiedeboer): "I really need to stress to everybody that disability activists in general and “neurodiversity” activists specifically are among the most aggressive and shameless I’ve ever dealt with, and I’ve dealt with many. And there’s been no “vibe shift” in that world at all; it’s always 20…"

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I really need to stress to everybody that disability activists in general and “neurodiversity” activists specifically are among the most aggressive and shameless I’ve ever dealt with, and I’ve dealt with many. And there’s been no “vibe shift” in that world at all; it’s always 2019 when it comes to disability.

Jackie Kancir

May 5

So many aggressive messages have bombed our feeds and inboxes in recent days claiming the speller is sharing their own voice and that it has been proven in studies. So why then is there so much hate driven toward Senator Fahy (NY) for adding the words “autonomous and validated” to a bill? If the communication truly is the speller’s own a…

The facilitated communication movement is built on a hidden premise — that a nonspeaking person needs to be revealed as secretly intelligent in order to deserve dignity. The healthier ground is that profoundly autistic people deserve dignity, autonomy, and care as they are. Intelligence is not the cost of admission to being valued.

Jackie Kancir

May 5

4:08 PM

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