In this mini-episode Jeanne explains how the prevailing narrative of autism viewed exclusively as a deficit causes immense harm to autistics by vilifying their behaviors and ways of thinking and the infantilization autistic adults, which encourages abuse (both intentional and unintentional) by caretakers and support professionals, and causes depression, anxiety, and self-loathing in autistics who internalize this hatred of their autism.

Transcript available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oP1J0S4MbSp84i_wtIsEhwm48u7tMLHJfXkZeJ-BQjU/edit?usp=sharing or on Twitter or Facebook at Actually Autistic Educator.