Amanda Baggs advocates for disability rights
She blogs, she makes breathtaking Youtube videos, she speaks at conferences and sometimes appears on TV.
Readers of her blog frequently beg of her to write a book - she's that good a writer. Not just good "for a retard", as she quotes in her blog! Nobody should ever say that about her - there are very few people in the world, both abled and disabled, who can write as well as she does.
Amanda Baggs advocates disability rights because she is disabled in some areas herself. That's why she has intimate understanding of the topic, having had her own rights denied countless times.
She is very abled and supremely talented in some other areas - such as fast typing, superb writing and making a point. That, combined with the direct experience of disability, makes her the best advocate ever.
Ballastexistenz Blog Feed
You can find most of the other great autism blogs through her blogroll, too
This is the famous Ballastexistenz blog by Amanda Baggs. You gotta admit she has style!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byThe Famous Video
(For all of you first-time non-disabled viewers, I have this advice: to avoid confusion, skip to minute 3:12 of this video, the "Translation" part. That's what CNN did, too.)
By the way, did you notice that this video is dedicated to Ashley X? That's another famous disabled person, who unfortunately can not yet speak for herself. But don't be so sure she has nothing to say.
In My Language
The first part is in my "native language," and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not.
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Find Out About Amanda Baggs
Parents of autistic children report in various blogs and comments that their children respond very positively to this melody, which is actually Amanda Baggs speaking in her native - autistic - language.
These are the most authoritative websites, like CNN and Wikipedia, that give you basic knowledge about this extraordinary person.
- Living with autism in a world made for others
- CNN.com article about Amanda Baggs.
- Baggs: Live on an autistic island? Not me
- Amanda's Q&A in CNN.com
- Amanda Baggs
- Wikipedia.
- Why we should listen to 'unusual' voices
- Another article in CNN.com
- Video reveals world of autistic woman
- Yet another CNN.com article with reader comments.
- Behind the veil of autism
- Article by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, posted on CNN.com, with reader feedback.
Getting the Truth Out
Another famous site made by Amanda Baggs
Getting the truth out, a website by Amanda Baggs, is a strong, no-nonsense, no-BS, clear statement of disability rights.What she says so poetically in that Youtube video, is said here with in a clever, artistically powerful way.
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