In this episode of The Dialogues, Kassiane Asasumasu, Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu, Renae Martin, and Oswin Latimer explore Autistic joy, community, accessibility, and the increasingly complicated relationship between technology and disability.
The group discusses the latest developments in US autism policy and research, including concerns around the IACC, the value placed on academic credentials within Autistic advocacy, and how the next generation can build on the work of earlier Autistic communities without recreating the same hierarchies and barriers.
As the conversation unfolds, they also tackle some very Autistic questions: what does active listening actually look like? Why is eye contact still treated as proof that somebody is paying attention? Do Autistic people really all have the same “safe foods”? And what happens when the technology designed to make life easier creates entirely new accessibility problems?
From football and barbecue to AI, AAC, pseudoscience and the return of some surprisingly familiar ideas about autism, this is a wide-ranging conversation about who gets listened to, whose expertise is valued, and why questioning the ideas presented to us remains so important.
The Dialogues is produced in collaboration with Foundations for Divergent Minds for the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.
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