https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/03/stop-shocks-torture-massachusetts/ Click the above link for full article by Cal Montgomery about the Judge Rotenberg Center’s usage of torture. Spread this around. “What happened to Andre McCollins is still legal. It shouldn’t be. It wouldn’t be legal for anyone else — not convicted terrorists, not captured enemy combatants, not anybody. And it shouldn’t be: torture […]| Ballastexistenz
This is my first post for BADD this year — Blogging Against Disablism Day. Hopefully there will be others to follow. So these days, in the USA and many other countries, different categories of disabled adults get different services that are supposed to help us live outside of institutions. One kind of services is developmental […]| Ballastexistenz
Someone decided this was going to be Autistic History Month. I had another contribution I was going to write. In fact, it’s already almost written. But I ended up writing this instead. At first…| Ballastexistenz
If you are oppressed, then you face ableism. It’s that simple. You’re probably not used to this concept at all, so I’ll explain(1). Bear with me, because this is quite important whether you know it yet or not. From my perspective, there’s two main ways that oppressions collide with each other. One is horizontal. One […]| Ballastexistenz
This is my post for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2016. Like many of my posts, although it focuses on one specific situation (autism research) it applies to a much more broad set of circumstances if you look at it closely. I was originally planning on doing something much more ambitious for BADD, but reality (and […]| Ballastexistenz
Just a reminder, since I don’t post often (inertia problems mostly): Comments are under moderation, so your comments won’t appear immediately, and it may take months or even years for all I know for me to get to your comment. If your comment doesn’t appear instantly, that does not mean I have rejected it, it […]| Ballastexistenz
Orange is the color of Autism Acceptance Month. Because it's the opposite of blue, and blue is the color that everyone is told to wear for Autism Awareness Month. Which kind of sucks because my favorite colors, and nearly all of my clothes, are brown and blue. And I used to really hate orange. Sometimes I hate the term Autism Acceptance, too -- I like the idea behind it, but I don't like the way the term has become a meaningless buzzword in some people's mouths. Whether it's parent groups who...| Ballastexistenz
[This is my post for Blogging Against Disablism Day. I will also have a post on my poetry blog, once I get around to rounding up all the poems I’m going to put in that post.] I reach out for my body. It’s an instinct, all young ones must have it. But instead of feeling […]| Ballastexistenz
My favorite picture of my dad, farm boy to the core and grinning from ear to ear. Once he found out I liked the overalls, he wore them every time he visited me. But last time we visited… call it a premonition, call it whatever you like, it was the first time we cried when […]| Ballastexistenz
So as far as I know I’ve been/had: Autistic since birth, probably since before birth, knowing the current science and the repetitive movements my mom felt inside her. But definitely atypical …| Ballastexistenz
