Why Tom Clements’ Guardian feature on autism draws criticisms from the autistic community – Spectra Blog

I thought this was worth reading. It’s longer than my usual blogs, but then it needs to be.

Over to Spectra Blog…

The recent UK newspaper article ‘What is autism? How the term became too broad to have meaning any more’, by Tom Clements, has drawn criticisms leans towards Aspie supremacy, e.g. wanting to distance himself from the word autism; and uses dated and dehumanising language.

Source: Why Tom Clements’ Guardian feature on autism draws criticisms from the autistic community – Spectra Blog

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