The talk focusses on how the way we think about autism informs how ‘enabling’ or ‘disabling’ public space, and services are towards people on the spectrum, as well as presenting alternative ways of seeing disability.

Specifically, the session advocates for a social framework of understanding neurodiversity. That is to say, one that favours seeing the challenges neurodiverse people face as the result of economic and social barriers, and not as evidence that they are inherently ‘broken’.

Throughout the presentation, I draw on personal experience, challenging many of the misconceptions about autism, as well as describing the process of coming to understand the condition for myself. 

You can watch the session in full below: