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Autistics.org
Autistics.org was a website. It was by and for autistic people. It discussed autism politics. This was the first website that did both of these things. The website was up between the years 1998 and 2011. Most of the website’s contents can still be accessed via webarchive. Their forums and the connected IRC channel #AutFriends are not available. Many prominent autistic advocates got their start here. The webmasters were Laura Tisonick and Mel Baggs. Laura had the nickname Muskie. The Autism Information Library was an important feature of this website. It is an archive in and of itself. You can learn more about the story of autistics.org via the online textbook Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement, released in 2019 here
You can access the final version of Autistics.org before its servers went down here. You can find an older version of the site here.
#AutFriends can be found here
Blogs
We Still Need to Fight Eugenics
Autism Positivity Day Flash Blog
LiveJournal
LiveJournal is a social media platform. It is still around today, but it is rarely used. MySpace is like this too. There were many autistic people who used to gather on LiveJournal. They talked about a range of different topics surrounding neurodiversity. Below are some of the users and journals where users participated.
Profiles
Reports from a Resident Alien (2005-2017)
(later moved to Wordpress)
Journal Entries
Obnoxious Puzzle Symbol (May 18th, 2006)
Grrrr (October 19th, 2006)
Autistic Pride (May 5th, 2007)
Communities
http://www.livejournal.com/community/asperger/
Forums
Other archives
Autistic Archive is an archive of Autistic Communities and the Neurodiversity Movement. It is not the only archive of this work. There are other archives that cover topics. They are well worth your time.
Last updated in 2008. Some of it covers the Neurodiversity Movement. It also has more general autism information.
International Badass Activists
Has a heavy focus on the NT-led autism organizations. It also focuses on the anti-vaxxer movement. It has a working timeline.
Riah’s Weird Journey: Autism & Race
This archives and lists resources for Black and Brown Autistic people. I try my best to include their work in my archive. It will never be as authentic as one made by an Autistic person of color though.
Fierce Autie covers a mixture of topics. This includes parenting, professionals and fake treatments, as well as the autistic side of things. The layout is also not the same as mine, and you may find the way this user does it appealing.
Focused on the disability community as a whole and has some stuff about autism. Much of the writing is applicable to neurodiversity, even if it’s not directly related.
Similarly to Mouth Mag, A Ragged Edge focuses on the wider disability community rather than just autism and neurodiversity.
Autistic History Month was observed in 2013, 2016, and 2017 during November. People wrote about autistic culture and shared things.
related to the Neurodiversity Movement's history.
The Real Voices of Autism was a social network by and for the autistic community. Its servers went live in 2008. The only content that is available as of now is the front page. Some prominent advocates in the Neurodiversity Movement were frequent users on there. This includes
Phil Schwarz, Laura Tisoncik, and Samantha Crane. There several sub-channels for specific groups, like Femautism for female autistics, and a channel for planning Autreats.
PosAutive was a blog. The name combines positive and autistic. It was also a network of YouTube channels of autistic people who made videos about autism. Their blog is accessible via Web Archive. Much of it is inaccessible due to the death of Adobe Flash player.
Dinah Murray contributed to this project. Her YouTube channel has some of the videos featured.
Boycott Autism Speaks (BAS) is a blog. A group of autistic people started it.Ssome of those autistic people include Lei Wiley-Mydske, Kimberly Faith, and Kasianne Asasumasu. They posted about the issues with Autism Speaks and similar organizations. They are a grassroots civil rights movement led by autistic people and their allies. They are not as active as they were in the early-mid 2010s, but their blog is still up for viewing.
Autistic UK is an organization. It started in the United Kingdom. It is autistic-run. They were the first autistic campaigning organization in the UK. They started in 2014. They are the first people known to use the golden infinity symbol.
InternAut was an autism self-advocacy website. It ran from 1999 to the early 2000s. They were once known as International Autism Day. They are in a paper for Society for Disability Studies.
Content note: ABA, Restraint, Aversives, Seclusion, Abuse
CIBRA was a collective founded by parents of autistic children. Their children were traumatized by practitioners of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). ABA is a therapy used on autistic people. Many autistic people feel harmed by it. They wanted to expose the abuse autistic children faced. They did this with personal accounts of what happened in sessions. They had two different divisions:
The Autism Division,
The Mental Health Divison
The Autism Division dealt with abuses happening in autism interventions. The Mental Health Division dealt with abuse that took place at facilities. Facilities are a place people go to where they receive treatment. They stay there for a short amount of time. They get treatment for mental health issues. There are many cases of harm at facilities. Their website went up in late 1999 and their servers closed in 2015. It is still available via webarchive.
Content note: Abuse
The Autism Truth and Justice Commission was a website. It documented cases of abuse and bullying of autistic people around the world. It proposed practical solutions. They were part of Autistic.org's network. Their servers went up in 2000 and down in 2005.
An autistic adult named Frank Klein had a website up that contained his articles, editorials, and "questionable attempts at humor". The site was up from 2001 to 2009.
Survey of Autism was a website. It surveys autistic people and their family members. It sees which traits of autism as described in the DSM-IV were most common among respondents. It also shows the perceived traits of autistic people by their family members. The servers were up from 2003 to 2016.
Content note: Asperger's
Aspies For Freedom was a forum by and for autistic people. They opposed attempts at curing autism and advocated for autism acceptance. They came up with Autistic Pride Day. Autistic Pride Day is on June 18th every year. The first one was in 2005. The rainbow infinity symbol originated from this site. They have an instant messaging channel known as ChatAutism , which is still active. There is some outdated language on their site. Aspies For Freedom has not been active for a while. Their earliest home page can be found above. Their current website can be found at http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/.
Content note: Asperger's, ABA
Oddizms was a website that featured various writings about autism on Geocities. It linked to other peoples' blogs as well.
Association for the Autistic Community
alt.support.autism was a Usenet group many people used to discuss autism in the late 90s and the 2000s. Usenet was an early version of the internet. People used email to chat with it. It was used by autistic people as well as parents, and contains use of Asperger's as well as parents looking for ABA services.
Auties.org was a website that was meant to inform autistic people of employment opportunities. It was unique in that it was an employment initiative started by autistic people, including Donna Williams and their husband Chris Samuel.
Content note: Asperger's
This is the old website of Liane Holliday Wiley. Liane Holliday Wiley is an autistic woman and a mother. It includes articles that give advice for parents of autistic kids. It also has information about herself. It gives an impression of how web design has evolved. The webpage's design changes as you advance through the years on the Wayback Machine.
InLv
InLv, short for Independent Living, was an email list by and for autistic people. Martijn Dekker started it. It was also a webpage. There is a whole chapter about it in Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement here. The links to the websites of same name are below.
http://www.inlv.org/inlv-historic.html
Autinet was a free, unmoderated electronic list that focused on Asperger's. Peter Wise owned this list.
There are autistic people involved in autism research. There are more non-autistic autism researchers. It's important that there are autistic researchers. They research topics often overlooked in autism research. Click the link above to learn more.
Geek Club Books was a non-profit founded by Jodi Murphy. It was dedicated to telling the stories of autistic people. They published Zoom Autism Magazine, which is currently being rebranded. You can see all current issues of Zoom here. Geek Club Books started in 2011 and closed in 2021.
Autistic Culture was a website that contained information about the autistic community and Neurodiversity Movement. It was maintained by Amy Nelson of Aspies for Freedom. It contains some dated language
Aspergers Syndrome Info and Features (AS-IF) was a website maintained by someone named Suz. It hosted a number of information about autism. There is some dated language, including the use of Asperger's.
Celebrate Autism Now was maintained by Amy Nelson. It includes profiles of autistic people seen as role models. The name itself is a parody of Cure Autism Now.
Richard Hudson's Autism Corner was a website from GeoCities. It was the personal webpage for a man named Richard Hudson. It includes links to other websites autism and disability related.
Autism 101 contains resources for newly diagnosed autistic people and people who think they may be autistic.
BRAIN.HE is short for Best Resources for Achievement and Intervention re Neurodiversity in Higher Education. It was a London-based nonprofit website funded by London School of Economics' Neurodiversity Team and the LSE annual fund.
i-autistic is the website for Eric Y. Chen. It includes his personal writing and art.
Aspies e.V. was an autistic-run self-help organization based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2002. They are still active. You can find their current website here.
Autism Memorial is a blog that documents the murder of autistic people. This includes bad practice, lack of resource or support, or outright murder.
Phil's World was a website ran by an autistic person named Phil who lived in Australia. It included personal essays. The most notable part was Phil's World ASD Awards. The categories were
GAP: Great ASD Parent
GAA: Great ASD Adult,
GMP: Great Medical Professional
HAP: Horrid ASD Parent
HAA: Horrid ASD Adult,
HMP: Horrid Medical Professional
Autism Against Fascism was a website started in 2020 to stop fascism in the autism community. It included guides on fascism. It had guides on how to identify and stop fascists. Most of their site was in plain language.
Syracuse University started the Facilitated Communication Institute in the 1990s. They released a newsletter called Facilitated Communication Digest. Many of its contributors were people with disabilities who typed to communicate. Their featured writings from 1992 to 2001 can be found on their archived website.
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