Mel Baggs
[Image description: A white person with round glasses and dark shoulder length hair wearing a white button up shirt with a black vest over it, a brown cowboy-esque hat, and a necklace sitting in a living room on the couch]
Name: Mel Baggs (Sie/hir) (They/them/theirs)
August 15th, 1980-April 11th, 2020
Links:
Autistic Adults Picture Project Bio
LiveJournal account (Wakasplat)
Wired article- Yeah I'm Autistic. You Got A Problem With That? By David Wolman
The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know by David Wolman
Baggs: Live on an autistic island? Not me.Â
World Autism Interviews: [Mel] Baggs/Access to Quality Healthcare in an Autistic World
Notes: Mel went by Amanda until later in hir life. Sie is often referred to as Amanda Baggs or A. M. Baggs in older sources, though that was ultimately hir dead name. Mel was short for Amelia.