The autistic rights movement, also known as the autism acceptance movement, is a social movement allied with the disability rights movement. It emphasizes...

Autistic self-advocacy organizations, which are led and run by autistic people, are a key force in the movement for autistic acceptance and autistic pride...

the definition of personhood. The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps: the autism rights movement and the pathology paradigm. The pathology...

Special interests are highly focused interests common in autistic people. They are more intense than typical interests, such as hobbies, and may take up...

campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for autistic people. The National Autistic Society is funded...

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization run by and for autistic individuals. ASAN advocates...

Autistic individuals have a significantly reduced life expectancy, on average approximately seventeen years shorter than that of the general population...

paradigm, which frames autistic traits as a healthy variation of the human condition. This view is supported by the autism rights movement, whose paradigm researchers...

Professional Studies since 2012. Price, who is autistic and transgender, has explored themes such as autistic identity, trans identity, and masking in his...

an autistic autism researcher. This theory proposes that many of the difficulties autistic individuals face when socializing with non-autistic individuals...

researchers, neurodiversity proponents, and autistic self-advocates from the autism rights movement. Some autistic adults who experienced applied behavior...

autism rights movement. It is often discussed in conjunction with autistic masking/camouflage, compensation, and passing. The phenomenonology of autistic burnout...

Jim Sinclair is an American autistic activist and writer who helped pioneer the neurodiversity movement. Sinclair, along with Xenia Grant and Donna Williams...

campaigning group that aimed at raising public awareness of the autism rights movement. The aim of Aspies For Freedom is to educate the public that the autism...

movement happened over autism conferences, namely the autistic-led Autreat, penpal lists, and Usenet. The framework grew out of the disability rights...

Autistic art is artwork created by autistic artists that captures or conveys a variety of autistic experiences. According to a 2021 article in Cognitive...

Sunday, Autistic Pride Day, Autreat, and others. The autism rights movement, also known as the autistic culture movement or the neurodiversity movement, is...

Children's Rights Movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgment, expansion, and/or regression of the rights of children...

Shain A. Mahaffey Neumeier (born 1987) is an American autistic and nonbinary transgender attorney. Neumeier advocates against coercive and forced treatment...

Network International (ANI) is an advocacy organization run by and for autistic people. ANI's principles involve the anti-cure perspective, the perspective...

science fiction) as well as by the autistic community. In the latter, "infodumping" is understood as one element of autistic expression, particularly as it...

about the existence of a social movement of neurological minorities that would also include the autism rights movement. However, this term first appeared...

disorder to be cured. The autism rights movement advocates for several goals, including greater acceptance of autistic behaviors; therapies that focus...

where she offers advice on animal behavior. Grandin is one of the first autistic people to document the insights she gained from her personal experiences...

goals. In the 1970s through the 1990s, leaders of the lesbian and gay rights movement sometimes downplayed or excluded masculine lesbians, feminine gay men...

intelligence for autistic individuals. Their study revealed that the neurotypical children scored similarly on both tests, but the autistic children fared...

opportunities in ways that are similar to their non-disabled peers. Disability rights advocates define true inclusion as results-oriented, rather than focused...

Autistic supremacism, also referred to as Aspie supremacism (in reference to Asperger syndrome), is an ideological school of thought followed within certain...

Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel is a human rights concept encompassing the right of individuals to travel from place to place...

capacities within the children's rights movement, but the youth rights movement differs from the children's rights movement in that the latter places emphasis...