When an autistic person succeeds at anything, an ableist trope is too commonly used: that they were successful because they somehow overcame or “defeated” their autism. An example of this is with the first performance of a twenty-two year old autistic and blind musician, Kodi Lee on America’s Got Talent (AGT), who earned the “Golden […]

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The Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support Act of 2014 (also known as the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act) provides the majority of funding that goes into autism research, services, and support activities in the United States. The Autism CARES Act, which provides $260 million of funding for autism, will expire on September 30, 2019 […]

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