Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…
Category: Opinion
This week hate crimes against autists, disability rights, autistic inspiration, #StopAutisticHate… plus some cool nerdy stuff.
It’s crazy that an autistic has to call a mayor & beg for training for first responders.
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…
Extraordinary case…. “human services” used as a codeword for police brutality.
Autism isn’t a mental illness. And meltdowns are not a symptom of disease. Either way…
Please don’t shoot us…?
Information gathered by the government… most especially the police or Justice Department… always ends up being used for punitive purposes…
Autist found guilty of mass murder…
Good.
Iowa City feels good about itself this morning…
The autists who live there shouldn’t…
Costco roasted chickens cost you just $4.99.
Read what it costs the chicken.
Forgiving abusers… as much as SOME therapists, pop psychologists, and self-help gurus insist on it…
Is NOT a Cosmic Rule.
We autists aren’t the problem.
Killer cops are.
In Tibetan Buddhism, a “bardö” is the intermediate gap we experience between death and rebirth… Said to be, for most, a foggy, confusing, dreamlike state… lost… abandoned… fear… desire… hope… The world has been obsessed with Donald J. Trump for 5 years. Nervously checking our phones dozens of times a day… What has he done […]
No human services should be delivered by someone packing a gun…
There’s no excuse for deadly mistakes… delivering human services.
There’s a hole in the American Dream…
Trump in decline…
His shadow spreads… America is diminished.
This … https://nativeofnowheredotblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/what-its-like-to-be-autistic-and-in-jail/ To read more about this important issue: Autism & the Police.
I believe strongly that no human services interaction should involve a human with a gun… unless overt signs of mortal violence are clearly evident.
Ever.
New group tracking police & autism interactions.
