{"id":302,"date":"2012-03-12T01:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T08:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-03-19T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:56:17","slug":"the-politics-of-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The March 17 AASCEND meeting should be a lively one! Is it\u00a0possible to have peaceful and inclusive discussion of\u00a0questions like the following? Come share your thoughts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do the changes to the definition of autism proposed for the upcoming <strong>DSM 5<\/strong> \u00a0help or harm the autism community?<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Autism Wars&#8221;:<\/strong> Can the Cure-Childhood-Autism and Celebrate-Adult-Autism contingents hear each other and speak with one voice when advocating for autism resources? How do the needs of self-advocating spectrum adults overlap those of families with severely impacted autistic children?<\/li>\n<li>Can adult autism advocates <strong>&#8220;own the puzzle piece&#8221;<\/strong> logo long associated with the cure-autism movement? Is there anything puzzling about autism?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bring your own questions<\/strong> about the Politics of Autism!<a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/argument-cartoon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-321\" title=\"argument-cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/argument-cartoon2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/argument-cartoon2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/argument-cartoon2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/argument-cartoon2.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>March 17, 10-noon \u00a0 \u00a0 CCSF Downtown Campus \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Room 618 \u00a0 \u00a088 4th St. @ Mission St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March 17 AASCEND meeting should be a lively one! Is it\u00a0possible to have peaceful and inclusive discussion of\u00a0questions like the following? Come share your thoughts: Do the changes to the definition of autism proposed for the upcoming DSM 5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}