We Need To Change The Way We Talk About Autistic Kids

Language matters and the wrong choices can be objectifying and disrespectful

Jae L
5 min readMar 8

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Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash

As an autistic adult, I’m fortunate to a enjoy certain amount of autonomy and agency. I can make decisions about how I identify and how I express that to the outside world. I’ve been able to draw on the diverse lived experiences of other autistics…

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Jae L

Queer, neurodivergent and in the business of defying expectations. Doing my best to answer the questions I keep asking myself. diverge999@gmail.com