Experts

When I wrote the headline for this piece, I was angry, exasperated, tired, cranky, triggered. So now I’ve let it breathe I can admit okay, I suppose technically there are autism experts out there. But anyone who likes to generalise about what autistic people are or do are not those people.  The number of verging-on-retirement Caucasian cismale hetero paediatricians in Sydney lauded as being experts in this field, who dismiss anything short of school-aged non-verbal[…]