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The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiversity paradigm.

Often what keeps us from writing is the fear of how our words will be received by the world. For now, let's set that aside and focus on simply birthing them into the world. Yes, birth is messy. Let's do it anyway! Let's bumble forward in all our vulnerability and imperfection. In this book you'll learn how freeing this can be, why it's vitally important, and how to make it safe. You may even realize you can write.Joy Reichart is a lifelong writer and seasoned coach who is committed to helping folks get to the heart of their story. You can find her current writing and offerings at soulwriting.org.

When young Hao C. Tran left Vietnam in 1973 to study abroad, he had no idea it would be 20 years before he could return, or how much his native land would change in his absence. These are the stories of his exile, his return journeys, and his reconnections with long-lost family and friends, with a new Vietnam, and with himself.

Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World is a collection of stories by neurodivergent people who identify as being Mad, about what it's like to live Mad in a world that oppresses them for the ways they think, live, and act differently from those who consider themselves Normal.intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes dark, these stories are always illuminating. some describe situations that are vibrantly shameful, horrifyingly scary, and just plain hard. they're also joyful, spiritual, and enlivening. these are narratives that describe in detail what it looks, feels, sounds, and smells like to be Made Mad. they outline what it's like for Mad people to interact with those in the psy-complex who stigmatize, psychiatrize, and traumatize those called crazy. it's unhinged writing, about whirleds unknown and unimagined by most. it's work that is immensely difficult to write, read, talk, or think about.Tinfoil Hats was not conceived as - should not be read as - some kind of trauma porn, a way to get juiced on the misery and distress of others. nope. nuttin like dat. instead, it sees Madness as a kind of political and revolutionary knowledge. it troubles the ways in which Mad bodyminds are heard and understood by the psy-industrial complex and the dominating, epistemic violence it inflicts on us all.the authors come from all over the world, and from all walks of life. Tinfoil Hats is edited by Mad poet, artist, and scholar Phil Smith, whose recent work Writhing Writing: Moving Towards a Mad Poetics (and published by Autonomous Press) won the 2020 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award.this book is for you if you're a Mad person, or if you know someone who is. this book is for you if you're a social worker, psychologist, researcher, therapist, doctor, or nurse, and want to know what it's like to live Mad. this book is for you if you're curious about what saneism is, and what that form of oppression means in the lives of real people. Tinfoil Hats is the beginning of a Mad (r)evolution. join us.

"To dive into Phil Smith's writing - a dazzling blend of poetry, ethnography, social critique, and gleefully mad wordplay - can feel more like taking a psychedelic drug than like reading the work of a distinguished scholar. And yet, a distinguished scholar he is. For two decades, he has been a bold trailblazer and innovator in the realms of education, disability studies, mad studies, neurodiversity, and poetry, and in exploring how these realms can interconnect and inform one another Each chapter of this book is a poetic thought experiment that shreds cultural norms and assumptions, points the way toward new creative directions in scholarship, and might make your brain explode."- Nick WalkerAuthor, educator, and neurodiversity scholar

Sparrow Rose Jones is probably best known for their blog, UnstrangeMind: Remapping My World, and their previous book, No You Don't: Essaysfrom an Unstrange Mind, both of which deftly narrate their examination ofthemself, their identity as an Autistic person, and the changing state of accessand civil rights for Autistic people. Their essays have covered everythingfrom famous civil rights and criminal cases in the media to sexuality andrelationships, life skills, coping mechanisms, and personal introspection.In The ABCs of Autism Acceptance, Sparrow takes us through a guided tourof the topics most central to changing the way that autism is perceived, toremove systemic barriers to access that have traditionally been barriers toAutistic participation in some sectors of society. They also take us through thebasics of Autistic culture, discussing many of its major features and recentdevelopments with a sense of history and making the current state of theconversation around this form of neurodivergence clear to those who are new toit, whether they are Autistic themselves or a friend/family member looking forresources to help themselves support the Autistic people in their lives more fully.While it is impossible to capture the full scope and diversity of Autisticcommunitiesand there are many of them out therethis book does serve asan important conversation starter, a primer, and a humble guide to the world.In these 26 short essays, you will find most of the topics most often blogged aboutby Actually Autistic authors, including footnotes, resources, and referencesto other writers whose works continue the conversations that start here.