cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/52587401

Duration - 4:40
[a video on Peertube about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

When a mother couldn’t find a place willing to employ her son Liván, who has down syndrome, she decided to create one.

Liva Café in Havana employs people with intellectual disabilities and autism, with support from specialists in psychology and special education. For workers like Livan, Karel and Richard, it’s a place to earn experience, build relationships and show what they can do.

Cuba has long had policies aimed at integrating people with disabilities into the workspace. But as the people in Liva’s story explain, significant barriers remain — particularly when it comes to finding employers willing to give them an opportunity.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/20753965

In this video oliSUNvia goes deep into neurodivergence, the western ideas about mental health and the expectations and assumption this brings about people, their brains and how things should or should not be in society.

A very good watch!

Regardless of whether you enjoyed the plot or acting or other typical measures by which most people will analyze it, I'm curious:

What thoughts do you have about the portrayals of autism in the movie?

Did you find that it was better or worse at representing autism to NT viewers than the first one from 2016?

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29326810

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40823048

Hello everyone! I posted about a month or so ago about a new website for us. I decided to add an old school BB forum since Reddit has become unusable due to censorship. We have Lemmy, and it’s awesome! We simply need an exclusive area for us that are ND.

It’s ready for use while I tweak things. I’m also still working on the main website thedigitalaspie.com

I’m also still looking for writers/contributors and now moderators for the forum.

There is a dedicated board on the forum for suggestions and requests also.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38445203

I just launched a website for us all. The reason I created it is because good quality and relevant websites FOR us are hard to find. I mean, there are organization-owned websites that push political agendas, but ugh. I felt like there is a need for this.

I’m also looking for contributors! I want this website to have voices from all over the world. This is not my blog, I want it to be a valuable resource.

Please feel free to check it out, and give feedback on how it can be improved.

The link: https://www.thedigitalaspie.com/

The “aspie” part of the website name was chosen because it sounds less clinical or rather more casual/friendly. Please know that no offense is meant.

My wife and I are sitting here watching TV when I have the urge to blurt out, “MAMBO NUMBER FIVE!”

She immediately starts singing the song!

Anyone else doing ridiculous stuff unmasked at home?

If you do find yourself making the comparison then you should seek a therapist that has experience with ASD.

I used to think i only told people about my autism in order to feel more comfortable or trusting. I suppose that’s part of it but i’ve begun to realize that the trust is what encourages me to share.

I want to give them tools to understand our communication with less friction.

Obviously I must continue to use my own tools to better understand the people around me but if i can avoid causing suffering before it happens ill do that too.

The Lobotomy 2.0.

Assholes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/421421

Transcript from the post:

I've read here and there about how autistic people aren't able to recognise social hierarchies. Obviously I can't speak for everyone, but in my experience it's not that I haven't been able to recognise them, it's that I don't respect them and I don't care (inverted smiley face)

Great, more potential "diverse" imperialists to deal with.

Politics is full of nuance and contextual information; so struggling with interpreting social contexts can lead to autistic people being gullible.

So much for "social democracies", they may as well just be capitalist countries.

Once again, capitalist try to eliminate autistics rather than help them.

Welp, I'll make sure to dodge therapies in the future.

Every capitalist country ever.

Sigh.

I know this is the autism community but as someone with ASD and ADHD, I thought people here might appreciate this video. There tends to be an overlap between the two.

So it means that the diagnosis Autism really targets people whose brains have developed differently from the average person.

Now the eugenicists are going to try to edit the progenitor cells. I guess it's time to prepare for a large-scale attempt at eugenics.

U.S legal system at its finest: "You aren't actually harmful to children; but you downloaded child porn and that's all that matters! You are sentenced to be a sex offender… even though the sex offender registry had never worked and failed to complete any of its goals.

What struck me about Augustus’ comments was that it is completely normal to start dating in your early twenties. I started dating in my early twenties, for one, and so have many of my friends, both disabled and temporarily non-disabled.

1. What are their sources? (Other than anecdotal evidence.)
2. "Normal" is an alienating term; not everyone will receive an average expectation.
3. Most incels have not gotten a relationship or had sex. That is the definition of involuntary celibate.
4. Who are the author's friends and what are their material conditions? There could be different material conditions that separate Augustus from them.

• They could be female (teens can get dates too) humans who are more likely to get dates.
• The author could have lived in a place accepting of neurodiversity.

What is clear is that the fight against incels and their ideology must include a fight for comprehensive sex education for all students

Unlike in the old Soviet Union…

The Soviet Union had discovered autism (although as a different term) in 1926;^[Sukhareva-Prior to Asperger and Kanner] the Soviet Union also cared for autistic people.

Because of the lack of state resources going into treating autistic people, many parents of autistic children have to rely on “NGO’s” (they are unable to register as such, but are NGO’s according to the international interpretation of such a term). [5] These NGO’s are often rather inadequate: although many claim that they use ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis), very few professionals working for these organizations have received formal training in ‘‘real’’ ABA principles and techniques. [6] Those organisations that do, such as the Stars and Rain institute in Beijing, are costly. Stars and Rain offers a 10-week programme in ABA, but the cost of the treatment is 3000 yuan (about $361.) with families being responsible for travel and accommodations on top of this. For most families in China, this is too much. [7]

Sigh... Looks like it's those ABA worshipers again.