Re: Autistics Speaking Day (1 November)

 Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ross Clark:

 > That is, not "austistics speaking" as a phenomenon that might be studied by a
 > linguist, or (God Forbid) "Talk Like an Autistic Day",
 > but rather autistics speaking to the rest of us, telling us about themselves.
 >
 > The Day was established by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in 2010.
 > Crystal quotes at length from this site:
 >
 > https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/about-autism/
 >
 > One point made clearly is that there probably isn't any such single "autistic
 > speaking" that a linguistic could study, since autistic people have a huge
 > range and variety of communicative economies and resources.

There are commonalities to the extreme end of autistic spectrum disorders, and
it is worth study, since better communication would improve quality of life for
many of these people substantially.

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