Advocacy on Behalf of Less-Impaired Autistics

• By: Karl Wittig, P.E. Aspies for Social Success (AFSS)
• January 2nd, 2023
• actually autistic, advocacy, division, less-impaired autistics, media portrayal, polarization, self-disclosure, Winter 2023 Issue
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In the more than two decades since my diagnosis, I have attended countless autism community events of just about every kind, not to mention numerous others in which issues concerning autism somehow came up. In virtually all of these, I routinely disclosed that I was on the autism spectrum and on...