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Autistic Tips for Political Organizing - Devon Price

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Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here. Today’s question comes from two separate Tumblr users, both of whom want advice for balancing their commitment to organizing and community-building with their need for a lot of alone time as Autistic people: This is a question that really hits me where I live. Figuring out how to balance the need to connect to others and enact my political ideals in my behavior with my need for bountiful alone time and rest is an ongoing question for me, one that I’ve had to develop answers to numerous times through my years as an activist (and then as someone who stopped identifying as an activist). I have struggled to find belonging within most politically engaged activist communitie

Autistic Tips for Political Organizing Autistic Advice #13: How to build a politically engaged life that works with your disability, not against it. Devon Mar 01, 2024 118 16 11 Share An image from a November pro-Palestian protest on Lake Shore Drive, photo by author. Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here . Today’s

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