Yesterday a journalist asked me during an interview whether, given that we’re talking about diversity and that each person is different, it wouldn’t be better to abolish concepts such as disability or autism, because they are negative identifications for the person who is labeled by them. Of course, at first glance we might think that these are just labels, and that obviously they must be transcended. And maybe this is true if we’re talking about a certain type of meaning …
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Since my book Eccentrico came out just over two years ago, I’ve started thinking about diversity in a distinctive way, and a new world has opened up for me. Before, …
At the beginning of November 2020, audio producer Marco Stefanelli came to Barcelona with his recording equipment. We spent two amazing days going around the city, recording sounds and noise, …
After a very much needed period of reflection and detoxification from social networks that was necessary to establish a new routine, this morning a friend had me read an article …
Relationships are not easy for anyone, whether Autistic or neurotypical. Other people are always unpredictable, precisely “other” than us, and remain unknown even when we delude ourselves that we know …
This is the story of Fiveminutes, who grew up without ever becoming an adult. Fiveminutes also had a real name, but at home mom and dad called him that because …
(Kindly translated by Andrew Dell’Antonio) On March 20, the President of the Spanish Council of Ministers, Pedro Sanchez, updated Royal Decree 463/2020 which establishes the state of emergency and mandatory …
Self-stimulatory behaviors, also called stimming, are one of the typical features of autism. They are repetitive, stereotyped movements of the whole body (rocking, spinning) or just one part of it (flapping …
Music, as we know it today, can be seen as a structured language. A codified system, molded by cultural factors, which allows the organization of what otherwise would be an …