Blume? Singer? Or Turtles all the way down? Spoiler: It really was me!I refer to the scurrilous and erroneous trashtake of my work that the two most prominent academic Johnny-Come-Latelies to the Neurodiversity discourse managed to get past the eagle eyes of the esteemed journal Sage Publications Autism. I refer to Dr Robert J Chapman, Nick Walker, and their 4 devotees, who ..read more

Notice of DefamationThe highly-respected academic journal, Sage Publications, has published the following open letter by 6 American and British academics, which claims to be a "correction" to the attribution of the term "Neurodiversity" to me.Click to follow link if you must but don't believe a word. Come back and read my debunking of this malicious beat-up. The letter is  authored ..read more

NOTE: I wrote this years ago. maybe 2019, but accidentally wiped out the date when I just published it I created this meme for Linkedin. I thought people joined Linkedin because they meant business, so  was amazed that mentioning payment seems to be taboo. How did we become so coy?From The Guardian: Employer secrecy is fuelling gender pay gapEmployer secrecy is fuelling gender pay ..read more

I wish I had the courage to resist the overwhelming pressure to respond in kind to my women friends who sign off their messages with love hearts, flowers and cute kittensAnd I'd love to have the courage to keep my business correspondence brief and to the point, to cut out all fake expressions of concern for the health of my creditors, and to stop worrying about what kind of "Regards" I should ..read more

Note:found this as a draft: Only published it 25/11/2024 but the published on date is correct. Its' probably incomplete More jobs mostly for the boys?We'll never know unless these companies give actual intersectional statistics in their Annual ReportsHavent seen too many jobs advertised for autistic women's traditional specialties... all forms of writing, quiet achievement, acute outsider ..read more

So these are the 2 tweets that have landed my career in hot water.   I’m #Linguaphilic, not #Transphobic! Why would I be transphobic when I introduced the term #Neurodiversity to advocate for a movement for respect, recognition and inclusion of all neurominorities?  Which obviously include sexual minorities since sex is a property of both minds and bodies, which in any ..read more

I did not seek fame, but fame found me. All I did was write an Honours Thesis. I remember asking myself at the time why I put myself through all that work, when nobody other than my supervisor and marker were ever going to read the damn thing.So then,  you might well ask, why did I go to all that trouble? Easy. As a sole parent in the middle of 3 generations of autistic women ..read more

Abstract The highly-rated Sage Journals:Autism has published an "Open Letter" authored by a group of 6 Northern Hemisphere authors, Chapman, Walker et al. Their letter seeks to downgrade my contribution to the Neurodiversity discourse. Their "correction" is riddled with false allegations. This post is intended to correct their erroneous so-called "corrections", and a copy will be sent ..read more

They call themselves "an international group of autistic scholars of autism and neurodiversity" Actually they are a Northern Hemisphere group of scholars, doing what the Global North does best: colonising whatever Southern intellectual property they can get their hands onFor the record, I am Australian, and I will fight their latest effort at misappropriatiom.The names of these scholars ..read more

 Please don't let Dekker get away with it!I hope truth-seekers will not be deterred by the length of my response. Regrettably it takes time to replace simplistic fabrications and fake memories with complex evidence-based facts. I am doing this for the historical record.  Click for full view of Dekker's claims Anyone with a background in the humanities will readily see that Mr. Dekker's ..read more