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Autistic Hoya
Personal blog · autistichoya.comhealthculture
Autistic Hoya is a personal blog at autistichoya.com about health and culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a list of ableist words and terms to avoid, and for its FAQ and advocacy against suppressing stimming. Comments cite these posts as support for their own points without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
That is true, offense does come easy. Ableism and this article comes to mind http://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avo... (that their* way of thinking)
Comment linking /p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html
on “Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System”Well regarding the specific person I cited they identify as "radical left" in their FAQ and they're probably the most prominent activist I can think of that makes this sort of advocacy. https://www.autistichoya.com/p/blog-page_19.html?m=1 I don't mean to say all people who day people should stim openly are exactly far left. It's pretty mainstream especially in health/education nowadays to not suppress stimming so lo…
Comment linking /p/blog-page_19.html?m=1
on “Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel”I think what really strikes me is that the most common form of "stimming" I've seen in the wild is the leg bounce. I've seen various other kinds of "stims" from autistic people from verbal, to tapping their fingers, to playing with a pen, to using an actual toy, to squirming around a bit, to standing on their tiptoes. You also mentioned that you flap hands in private, that's the other thing, traditionally people hav…
Comment linking /2018/10/neurodiversity-needs-shoes-off-fists-up.html
on “Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel”I think she represented the 90s pop-science autism fad (ASD hero worship stuff that trivializes non-HF autistics - which is sometimes called the ableist view) and a lot of her claims are on the receiving end of a fair bit of criticism. That's on top of her clear conflict of interest being a consultant to agribusiness and the Oprah-like PR her people have developed for her: Some links if you're interested: http://www…
Comment linking /2013/08/critiquing-temple-grandin.html
on “Errol Morris's Secret Weapon for Unsettling Interviews: The Interrotron”