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

Filed under: Acceptance

The Oppressive Charity Model: Reconsidering Autism Acceptance

This isn’t going to be one of my longer posts. I was simply driving Adam to school today listening to this song and thinking how fast April is approaching. What kind of awareness are we constructing about autism? Are we supporting a charity model...

Published Mon, Mar 04 2013 9:12 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance, Advocacy, The Economy of Pity

No Pity: As April Approaches…

I am finishing my M.A. in Critical Disability Studies, a fortunate position which I hope to give back to many others as The Autism Acceptance Project grows again. There are lots of writing deadlines now and April is on my mind…if you haven’t...

Published Mon, Mar 11 2013 6:33 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Advocacy, Charity, The Economy of Pity

Who is Safe; Who is “At Risk?” Some More Considerations Before April

As we head into April, I thought I’d post Protest on the Plinth which states that the value system from the Nazi era hasn’t changed much today. If people make out disabled people’s lives to be “intolerable,” then how can...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 6:05 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Inclusion, Research, Advocacy, school, Ableism, Disability History, The Autism Genome Project, Newgenics, Charity, Government Services, Pity, NEugenics

Thoughts on “Blue” Campaigns for Autism “Awareness” Month

April 2nd makes me quiet. So many voices, so many people who need to “speak” on behalf of many autistic people – I don’t think that this needs another voice… well, just not on April 2nd “Light it Up Blue” Campaign...

Published Sun, Apr 07 2013 12:04 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Acceptance

Some ways to incorporate “autism acceptance”

To follow yesterdays post, I want to continue with some ways to incorporate “autism acceptance” into our communities while also resisting appropriation and totalizing effects. In other words, how do we keep the concept of acceptance open and...

Published Mon, Apr 08 2013 11:00 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Acceptance

In Support of Autistic People

Here is one video I want to share in support of autistic people with Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher. If you haven’t yet watched Wretches and Jabberers, you can access the entire movie on You Tube. Here they are at a panel at Chapman University...

Published Tue, Apr 09 2013 3:38 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance, communication, Autistic Self Advocacy

A Rehabilitation Proposal for Non-Autistic Canadian Citizens

I highly recommend Alicia A. Broderick’s article Autism As Rhetoric: Exploring Watershed Rhetorical Moments in Applied Behavoiral Analysis in Disability Studies Quarterly by clicking here. In it, she describes the false premise of autism “recovery”...

Published Thu, Apr 11 2013 9:07 AM by Estée Klar