Compiled by Kit Mead
This is a link compilation of posts about autistic history, whether general autism history or personal autism history, and foundational/influential pieces. Some of these links may contain information that is “dated” or they may have occasional iffy content.
2017
- Autism’s Lost Generation (2015 Atlantic article on history)
- A Place For All (1997)
- Hear Our Voices Campaign part one re: ARK rally (2000)
- Hear Our Voices Campaign part two re: ARK rally (2000)
- Hear Our Voices Campaign part three re: ARK rally (2000)
- Hear Our Voices Campaign part four, sample letter to Congress, re: ARK Rally (2000)
- Concerns about Inclusion from Within the Disability Community (2008)
- On Kathleen Seidel and her research (2008)
- The Autism Rights Movement (NY Mag article, 2008)
- Normal Is Overrated (posts from 2007-2012)
- A Glimmer of Hope (2009)
- Ransom Notes Campaign (2007)
- Ransom Rant (2007)
- Letter to Non-Existent Senator on the Combating Autism Act (2006)
- Link collection on institutions (2006)
- Us/Them (1987)
- Neurodiversity (The Atlantic, 1998)
- Say it Loud: Autistic and Proud (The Guardian, 2005)
- The Autistic Distinction (Neurodiversity.com; 2004)
- Autistics Speak (2005)
- “ ‘Are You Sure, Sweetheart, That You Want to Be Well?’ ”: An Exploration Of The Neurodiversity Movement (2008)
- An Interview with the Founder of Autism Acceptance Month (2017)
2016
- Web archive of Jim Sinclair’s writings (writings of an early neurodiversity activist)
- Don’t Mourn for Us (1993)
- History of ANI (2005)
- The Future (and the Past) of Autism Advocacy by Ari Ne’eman (on the future and past of autism advocacy)
- The “Ransom Notes” Affair: When the Neurodiversity Movement Came of Age by Joseph Kras (2010 article on events in 2007)
- the “effeminate boys” studies (2015 blog post on history)
- Ari Ne’eman talk at Emory:”Autism and the Disability Community: The Politics of Neurodiversity, Causation, and Cure” (2013 talk on history)
- A Conversation on Institutions
- A discussion about theory of mind
- Autobiography of Anonymous
- The entire autistics.org Library via web archive
- Critic of the Dawn by Cal Montgomery (2001)
- We’re Still Fighting Bad Science: On Andrew Wakefield and the Vaccine Deniers by s.e. smith
- What I’ve learned in the past year by Autistic Amoeba (2010)
- Flowers v Gopal: Ugly Laws, Amistad, Blind Tom Wiggins, & The Legal View of Autistic People at Intersected (some disability history, historical autistic figures tied into the modern day)
- Behavior and genetics, Part 2: Eugenics by Urocyon (2010)
- My sort of people, just as real as theirs by Mel Baggs at Ballastexistenz (on finding community)
- Neurodiversity.com (archived site)
- Let’s have a conversation by Bev at Square 8 (2007)
- Scripted language and authenticity by Bev at Square 8 (2007)
- New York Times piece on autistics communicating on the Internet (1997)
- Autistic History: My Grandfather’s Story (2014)
- In Memory of Elsie Lacks by Kerima Çevik (on the daughter of Henrietta Lacks)
- Autreat website
- Library of the History of Autism Research, Behaviorism, and Psychiatry at neurodiversity.com
- The Early History of Autism in America at Smithsonian Magazine
- Autistic History Month 2013
- Autistic History Month 2016
