Ask an Autistic #10 - How To Be An Ally

What does it mean to be an ally? How can I be a good ally to Autistic people? In what ways can an allistic ally support the Autistic community? What does it mean to "presume competence"? Answers to all of these questions (and a surprise visit from Kitty!) in this episode of Ask an Autistic!

Source for the statistics on intellectual disability in Autistic people: http://www.autismacceptancemonth.com/...

Non-verbal Autistic advocates working towards autism acceptance:
Amy Sequenzia
http://nonspeakingautisticspeaking.bl...
Ido Kedar
http://idoinautismland.blogspot.ca/
Amanda Baggs
http://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/
Naoki Higashida
http://www.amazon.com/Naoki-Higashida...
Carly Fleischmann
  / carlysvoice  
Mike Weinstein
http://www.goldenhatfoundation.org/ab...
Henry Frost
http://ollibean.com/tag/henry-frost/
Dora Raymaker
http://doraraymaker.com/doraraymaker....
Peyton Goddard
http://peytongoddard.com/
Sharisa Kochmeister
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~cns/sh...

Resources for allies:
http://www.autismacceptancemonth.com/...
https://autisticadvocacy.org/2012/10/...
http://www.autistichoya.com/2012/03/w...
http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/april...

http://www.autismacceptancemonth.com/...
http://www.autismacceptancemonth.com/...
http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/201...

The transcript for this video's captions was provided by Alec, and he's great! You can check out his blog here: dysfunctionalqueer.tumblr.com (mature content & trigger warning)

My blog:   / neurowonderful  
My facebook page:   / amythestschaber  

The track used in this video was "Like Music" by pheraph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...