Autistische Gemeinschaft in öffentlichen Bibliotheken

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Das Ziel dies Projekts ist Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zur Existenz des Neurodivergenz Paradigmas and Autistischer Gemeinschaft, mittels einer Ausstellung im Rahmen öffentlichen Bibliotheken, bestehend aus Postern in nicht-pathologisierender Sprache und Büchern von autistischen Autoren.

Chronologie Autistischer Lebenserfahrung

Autistische Gemeinschaften

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Autistische Stimmen

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Quelldateien

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  1. Timeline
  2. Autistic Peoples
  3. Autistic Voices
  4. Slides

Weiteres Lesematerial

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These files can be printed and made available to the public:

Stories and guidance

  1. From Aotearoa
  2. For Whose Benefit
  3. Understanding the Autistic Mind

Handouts

  1. Book list
  2. Check-list : How to Select a Therapist for Autistic Children
  3. Contacts and resources

Ausstellungsorte

(derzeit noch keine im deutschsprachigen Raum)

Ursprüngliches Design

Organisiert and zusammengestellt von: Sarah Bettin

Künstlerische Gestaltung: Ulku Mazlum

Qualitätssicherung: Sully der Kater

Layout: Jorn Bettin

Dauer: 21 March – 10 April 2022

Ort: Waiheke Library, Auckland, Aotearoa

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Electronic versions of all the posters including the source files can be downloaded from this web page.

Logistics:

  • 1 x fold-up board: 140cm high x 120cm wide + 140cm high x 90cm wide
  • 1 x single board: 120cm high x 90cm wide
  • 1 x low table for books and print-outs
  • TV with plug-in for memory stick for wmv file.

Features:

  • The displays will be made up mainly of quotes from autistic authors.
  • Handouts with some links to autistic community
  • Handouts with a list of recommended books with my review
  • Handouts of brochure Understanding The Autistic Mind
  • Screen showing short film about Campaign in NZ to Stop Conversion therapies for Autistic Children

Topics of the displays:

  • Timeline of events in the autism industry, autistic advocacy, and the neurodiversity movement
  • Autistic Ways of Being: Definitions by the Autistic Community
  • Pathology Paradigm and its language
  • Approaches to Disability (Medical / Social Model / Human Rights)
  • Neurodiversity
  • Neurodiversity Paradigm
  • Neurodiversity Movement
  • Myths about Autism debunked
  • International Campaigns to stop behaviourist therapies

Recommended Book List

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Neuroqueer Heresis : Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities, 2021

by Nick Walker

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. This book collects a decade’s worth of Dr. Walker’s most influential writings. She is a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, and senior instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley.

A Field Guide to Earthlings : An Autistic / Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior, 2010

by Ian Ford (now Star Ford)

This book reveals psychological patterns of neurotypical (NT) humans, from an autistic perspective. This books shows how and why NTs live in complex competitive social structures, why they have elaborate mating rituals, how they display feelings for intentional effect.

This is Sarah’s all-time favourite.

Through the Eyes of Aliens: A Book About Autistic People, 1998

by Jasmine Lee O’Neill

This is a rich and positive description of how it feels to be autistic and how friends, family and the professionals that work with autistic people can be more sensitive to their needs. Jasmine Lee O’Neill, autistic herself, perceives the creativity, imagination and keenly-felt sensory world of the autistic person as gifts. She argues that ‘normalizing’ autistic people – pushing them into behaving in a way that is alien to their true natures – is not just ineffective but wrong.

The Reason I Jump, 2013

by Naoki Higashida

The author is autistic and wrote this biography when he was 13-year old. He is non-speaking and expresses himself using a computer and an alphabet grid.

Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels, A Memoir, 2022

by Sarah Gibbs

This is the story of one woman trying to fit into a world that has often tried to reject her and, most importantly, it’s about a life of labels, and the joy of ripping them off one by one.

Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline, 2020

Edited by Steven Kapp

A collection of essays. This book describes some of the key actions that have defined the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement since it organized into a unique community over 20 years ago. Only 2 of the authors are not autistic themselves.

This book can be downloaded for free in PDF format.

No You Don’t: Essays from an Unstrange Mind, 2013

by Sparrow Rose Jones (now Max Sparrow)

This collection of raw, honest, emotional essays describe the pitfalls and joys of an autistic life. The author is a popular autistic blogger and her title essay, No You Don’t, won her a loyal readership who admired her courage to share some of the darkest, most difficult times in her life.

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, 2017

by Melanie Yergeau

Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies scholarship and its reification of the neurological passivity of autistics. She also critiques early intensive behavioral interventions—which have much in common with gay conversion therapy—and questions the ableist privileging of intentionality and diplomacy in rhetorical traditions.

Being Autistic: Nine adults share their journeys from discovery to acceptance, 2015

Edited by Carline Hearst

This collection of essays can be downloaded for free in PDF format.

A Mismatch of Salience: Explorations of the Nature of Autism from Theory to Practice, 2017

By Dr. Damian E M Milton

The book ranges from discussing the theories (or rather, lack of theories) that exist around autism, to what Damian describes as a mismatch of salience. Key to this view is what Damian describes as the double empathy problem, which demonstrates that empathy is a two-way street.

Sarah has not yet read this book, but it has been warmly recommended to her by a trusted friend.

The Beauty of Collaboration at Human Scale: Timeless patterns of human limitations, 2021

by Jorn Bettin

Through the lenses of evolutionary biology and cultural evolution, small groups of 20 to 100 people are the primary organisms within human society – in contrast to individuals, corporations, and nation states. The implications for our civilisation are profound. Humanity is experiencing a phase transition that is catalysed by a combination of new communication technologies, toxic levels of social inequalities, and existential crises. It is time to put ubiquitous global digital connectivity to good use, to curate and share the lessons from marginalised perspectives, and to reflect critically on the human evolutionary journey and on the possibilities and limitations of human agency.

Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults: A Guide for Autistic Wellbeing, 2022

by Dr Luke Beardon

This is the only book in Sarah’s list which was not written by an officially Autistic author. However it is included in this list as it is so well written.

German translation

Petra Anderson