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Category Archives: Family Law and Relationships
ASAN Applauds National Council on Disability’s Report on Parents with Disabilities
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) has issued a statement applauding the National Council on Disability (NCD) for releasing a new report on safeguarding the parenting rights of people with disabilities. On September 27, NCD issued “Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children.” The...
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Tagged disability, family, law, parents, policy
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Putting Words to Expectations
by Meg Evans It’s often said that marriage takes a lot of work. My husband and I have been married since 1988, and in many ways we find it easy to get along with each other. We have similar views about many things, such as relationships, society, responsibility,...
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Tagged relationships
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Salt Lake Tribune Article
ASAN’s Dora Raymaker discussed the importance of relationships and the mutual effort needed for understanding of differences and respectful communication....
Posted in ASAN in the News, Family Law and Relationships
Tagged communication, relationships
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Tony Attwood Says What He Really Thinks
Attwood himself started using, and still uses, the term “Cassandra Phenomenon” and also feels quite comfortable using “affective deprivation” at the same time that he publicly pretends to distance himself from the whole concept. In addition his unprofessional talk of the partner of a person with AS “becoming Aspie-...
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ASAN’s Response to Dr. Tony Attwood
Dr. Tony Attwood Provides Inadequate Reply: After ASAN called on him to disassociate himself from hate groups, Dr. Attwood replied with only a form letter, sent to numerous recipients, which wholly failed to address his associations with Maxine Aston and FAAAS and the ongoing harm to Autistics and others...
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Cassandra’s Impact on Autistic Victims of Domestic Violence
Like other people with disabilities, many autistic people who are victims of abusive relationships are particularly vulnerable and may have great difficulty escaping from a life-threatening situation. If, because of the bigoted stereotype that the autistic partner is always to blame for family problems, an abused autistic's cries for...
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Tagged domestic violence, stereotypes
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Tell Tony Attwood to End the Hate: Autistic People Deserve Equality in Family Law and Relationships
Petition Against Hate Groups: ASAN has prepared a petition calling on Dr. Tony Attwood and Dr. Isabelle Hénault to disassociate themselves from hate groups promoting stereotypes and libels that seek to encourage discrimination against Autistic people in family law and relationships....
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Tagged family law, hate speech, relationships, stereotypes, Tony Attwood
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