Autist's Corner

The dark alley where feminism, autism advocacy and literary criticism meet.

Showing posts with label rape culture. Show all posts

Showing posts with label rape culture. Show all posts

Sunday, May 5, 2013

More About Stigma

Miri at Brute Reason has a very thought-provoking post up about social stigma, and whether anyone deserves to be stigmatized. She doesn...

Sunday, January 29, 2012

"I Don't Care If They Hit You; You're Not Supposed to Hit Back!"

(Photo by Allison Long, for the Kansas City Star) A recent article in the Kansas City Star covered a group with a different sort of anti-b...

Monday, May 23, 2011

Autistic Woman Writes Terrible Column; Speculation About Her Capacity for Empathy Ensues

There's this woman, Penelope Trunk , who writes about climbing the corporate ladder on her blog , and in her book Brazen Careerist: The ...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

What Would You Tell a Teenage Girl with Autism?

Sharon daVanport's blog, Spectrumy , has this guest post from Shana Nichols , a psychologist who specializes in helping girls with auti...

Monday, October 12, 2009

But What About the (Aspie) Men??!

There's a phenomenon I've been noticing off and on for a long time in online discussions of rape culture (most recently, here ), a...

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A Portrait of the Autist

Lindsay: Kansas, United States; I'm a recent KU graduate with degrees in biochemistry and English lit. I'm also on the autism spectrum, having been diagnosed with PDD-NOS at age 5. It's quite likely that, were I to be seen now, I'd be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. I write about a lot of things, which include but are not limited to: autism research, psychology, neuroscience, feminism, autism advocacy/neurodiversity, autism in literature, and broad, sweeping cultural critique. I also draw, paint and take the occasional random picture. Spam and abusive comments meet the icy-cold fury of my deleting finger.

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