290 pages
English language
Published Aug. 2, 2012 by The Autistic Press.
The Loud Hands Project, a project of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, was funded through IndieGoGo to create an anthology titled Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking. Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking is a collection of essays written by and for Autistic people. Spanning from the dawn of the Neurodiversity movement to the blog posts of today, Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking catalogues the experiences and ethos of the Autistic community and preserves both diverse personal experiences and the community’s foundational documents together side by side.
A wonderful mixture of the educational, the moving, and the poetic, this is an anthology of contributions on many facets of autism. From Jim Sinclair on person-first/identity first language and Nick Walker on the neurodiversity paradigm, to many more personal contributions, I feel like I gained something from each essay. CW for descriptions of abuse.
