Emilia Murry Ramey and Jody John Ramey: Autistics’ Guide to Dating: A Book by Autistics, for Autistics and Those Who Love Them or Who Are in Love with Them

Philosophers, three year olds & autistics

In the ‘false belief’ task (Wimmer and Perner 1983) autistics and three year olds attribute beliefs based on the objective truth of a situation in the world rather than what the person believes on the basis of available information. Several recalcitrant problems in philosophy are based on the same mistake in which philosophers take their own knowledge of the truth rather than the subject’s just...

Autistics speak but are they heard ?

In this article, we argue that the exclusion of autistic people from meaningful involvement in research is both ethically and epistemologically problematic, and constitutes a significant barrier to research impact. By the term ‘meaningful’, we refer to the inclusion of different autistic voices not merely as sources of empirical material, but as active participants in the production of knowledg...

How autistics see the world

In their stimulating discussion of monkey communication and socialisation, Cheney & Seyfarth (C & S) mention autism as an example of the dissociation possible between social and nonsocial intelligence (p. 270). We would like to suggest that autism is also an important example for many of the other points raised in this excellent book. Although the authors suggest a parallel between vervet and n...

Mending the Torn Fabric: For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them

Accommodating Autistics and Treating Autism: Can We Have Both?

One of the central claims of the neurodiversity movement is that society should accommodate the needs of autistics, rather than try to treat autism. People have variously tried to reject this accommodation thesis as applicable to all autistics. One instance is Pier Jaarsma and Stellan Welin, who argue that the thesis should apply to some but not all autistics. They do so via separating autistic...