by Matt Rozsa | Jun 5, 2023 | Salon.com
Speaking with Salon last month, autistic comedian Fern Brady decided to put neurotypicals on blast.
For the uninitiated: A neurotypical is a person who does not display autistic or other neurologically atypical behaviors. Traditionally, when commentary is made about autism, neurotypicals are the humorists, and neurodivergent people (those on the autism spectrum) are the targets....
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by Matt Rozsa | Jun 1, 2023 | Salon.com
Acclaimed pop star Sia found herself in the middle of a negative publicity whirlwind in 2021, when her filmmaking debut “Music” was widely panned by both movie critics and autism activists for its perceived low quality and self-admitted “ableism.” (Full disclosure: I denounced the film at the time as both a movie critic and autism activist.)...
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by Matt Rozsa | May 14, 2023 | Salon.com
Autistic people don’t get listened to — least of all when they’re talking about their own autism.
“Loads of people saying to me that they thought I could be [autistic]. And then the second you get diagnosed, it’s like a switch flips and people start telling you, ‘you don’t look autistic.'”
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by Matt Rozsa | May 4, 2023 | Salon.com
The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer of Tylenol, is in the hot seat as it faces more than 100 lawsuits from families alleging that the ubiquitous pain relief medication can cause autism, ADHD, and other developmental disorders in unborn children when taken by pregnant women.
The claims, if proven, would be a shocking twist for acetaminophen, the generic name of the drug in Tylenol, which is on a short list of medicines considered “essential” by the World Health Organization....
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by Matt Rozsa | Mar 1, 2023 | Salon.com
There are many aspects of autism spectrum disorders that remain, for lack of a better word, mysterious. As someone who is on the autism spectrum himself, I can personally attest to such enigmatic realities as the double empathy problem, which describes how autistic and non-autistic people fundamentally differ in how they communicate....
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