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

Showing posts with label stigma. Show all posts

Showing posts with label stigma. 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...

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Stigma

I thought this paragraph in the Discussion section of the article I posted about yesterday was so interesting it deserved its own post: ...

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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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