I’ve been working on a long-term project. A series of portraits of autists who experienced violence at the hands of the police, strangers, friends… family.
Category Archives: Autism & The Police
AutisticAF: The Week in Police & Autism 3/28/21
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…More
Share: An Autist Writes Their Mayor
It’s crazy that an autistic has to call a mayor & beg for training for first responders.More
AutisticAF: The Week in Police & Autism 3/21/21
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…More
AutisticAF: The Week in Police & Autism 3/14/21
Weekly roundup of interactions between autists… and cops. Violence, positive support, personal stories, legislation, registries, opinion…More
Cops Abuse Autist… Raising Scary Constitutional Issues
Extraordinary case…. “human services” used as a codeword for police brutality.More
Global Newsflash: We’re Autistic. Not Mentally Ill.
Autism isn’t a mental illness. And meltdowns are not a symptom of disease. Either way…
Please don’t shoot us…?More
📰🚨🔥🗞️Opinion: Accept Autism. Don’t Register it.
Information gathered by the government… most especially the police or Justice Department… always ends up being used for punitive purposes…More
🚨🔥BREAKING🔥🚨… Autist Found Guilty of Mass Murder… Good.
Autist found guilty of mass murder…
Good.More
Training Cops NOT to Shoot Autistic Folks…? DOES. NOT. WORK.
Iowa City feels good about itself this morning…
The autists who live there shouldn’t… More
Opinion: Autists Need Safety from Cops… Not ID Papers
Groton City Council Takes Autistic Safety Seriously… But… Won’t Be Enough.
No human services should be delivered by someone packing a gun…
There’s no excuse for deadly mistakes… delivering human services.
More
Share: What It’s Like to Be Autistic in Jail.
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.More
Opinion: Police Registry Systems Give This Autist the C r e e p s . .
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. More
Trigger Warning: New Group on Autism & the Police
New group tracking police & autism interactions. More
I’m Autistic. I Fear Cops….
I fear every police officer & cop car I see.
And in 21st Century America… I see them everywhere.
So I bought a Medical Alert Bracelet. To protect myself from “helping” First Responders…More
Autism in Art, Gallery: Democracy Is Coming… to the USA
I’m overwhelmed by the USA…
Art is how I deal…More
Autistic Folk Don’t Need IDs… OR. Armed. Cops.
There is no… none whatsoever… NO reason for a person performing a welfare check, or other purely social service, to be packing any form of lethal weapon. More
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