February 2013 - The Joy of Autism

Am I Disabled Too? Questioning My Identity As A Parent To An Autistic Child

Am I Disabled Too? Questioning My Identity As A Parent to an Autistic Child Estée Klar Against the background of a new “behaviour,” as it would be described by clinical behaviourists – Adam’s grunting – my writing about identity is agitated...

Published Mon, Feb 04 2013 8:58 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Critical Disability Theory

The Autism Acceptance Project Identity has been huh hum…taken? They are not us!!!

The original Autism Accetpance Project is located at www.taaproject.com. Our site was maliciously hacked a few months ago. I’d like to speak to Jennifer Zalzal who has claimed “copyright” of TAAP since we started it with events as early...

Published Wed, Feb 06 2013 11:00 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Uncategorized

Will the real Autism Acceptance Project please stand up?

Today, I was informed that the name of the organization founded by myself but built with many autistic people, both verbal and non verbal, was taken by the creator at this site here. Ms. Zalzal, the creator of this pretty site is a web designer and built...

Published Wed, Feb 06 2013 9:33 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism

TAAP is being returned to us!

I am happy to report Ms. Zalzal has agreed to take down her version of The Autism Acceptance Project and references to our years of work. She will be rebranding her site and re-making her own material. Thank you for understanding how important this is...

Published Fri, Feb 08 2013 5:24 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance

My Duct-Tape Day: The Economy of Pity in Action

This morning I woke up feeling I should walk around town putting duct tape over my mouth. I just couldn’t find any so I put The Autism Acceptance Project stickers over it – a befitting act seeing as how our material was pirated. I in fact...

Published Sat, Feb 09 2013 6:15 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: The Economy of Pity

This is the REAL Autism Acceptance Project: Our Video & CBC News – The National – In Depth & Analysis – Positively Autistic

CBC News – The National – In Depth & Analysis – Positively Autistic. And Here is the TAAP promotional video created in 2006: Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Tweet about it Read More...

Published Sat, Feb 09 2013 10:57 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: The Autism Acceptance Project

Hermes

“Hermes has taken over the world, our technical world exists only through the all-encompassing confusion of hubbub, you will not find anything left on the earth – stone, furrow or small insect – that is not covered by the diluvian din...

Published Sun, Feb 10 2013 7:36 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance, The Autism Acceptance Project

Decolonizing “Autism Acceptance”

It is interesting to see how many versions of “autism acceptance” there are out there. In my classes, filled with people with various disabilities including autism, autistic people say that they want to be accepted. This generally means that...

Published Mon, Feb 11 2013 7:49 AM by Estée Klar