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Loud Hands: autistic people, speaking - Autism speaks for itself: essays, stories, photos, and poems
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Loud Hands: autistic people, speaking - Autism speaks for itself: essays, stories, photos, and poems
Loud Hands begins with a pun: the loud hands of a stim becoming the loud hands on the keyboard.
It opens with a dedication to 36 children "and all of the names we may never know" and the hope that they rest in peace. One was six months old and died at the hands of his mother because he was believed autistic. The oldest was 22.
It starts with an essay: "Don't Mourn for Us," in which Jim Sinclair argues that autism is not death, but is grieved by parents as if it were; that...
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