Ember Green | Diagnosis, Identity & Community @Ember_Green | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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Is it wrong to "identify with your diagnosis?"
Are online "communities" real communities?
Not really an essay this one, more a chat about how I tend to feel about those questions & how this intersects with my politics & ethics, while exploring why these new bonds between neurodivergent people are so important.

An Actually Autistic woman talking about what an autism diagnosis means for autistic people & why neurodiversity needs community.

Videos I mentioned:
ElleFromSunnydale - Debunking the Autistic Terrorist Myth - youtube.com/watch?v=M5PdSois7ZQ&t=1481s
Then & Now - Foucault: Madness & Civilization (History of Madness) - youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1uSC1skkY
Then & Now - Foucault’s Madness: Ships of Fools, Confinement, Criticisms & Method - youtube.com/watch?v=-UMcq5Rgm1k
Three Arrows - How the U.S. Keeps Losing its Wars - youtube.com/watch?v=SmpkdPm9eeQ&t=2s

Videos I mentioned that I made:
Alienation & Identity series - youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_CtIp5TCxpwGVl6D6HS2gcM06_q8BaND
Brexit & Those Who Hate It - youtube.com/watch?v=0nKnRXry5DU&t=5s

SOCIAL MODEL STUFF

Disability and Capitalism by Leslie Exp - youtube.com/watch?v=H1Jof7PRCIA&t=4s
The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People by Novara Media - youtube.com/watch?v=K8ZBXaUXbhM
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The Social Model Of Disability| Purple Ella - youtube.com/watch?v=Sn6rLokHiFo
scope.org.uk/about-us/social-model-of-disability