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| We re Not Broken by Eric Garcia |
With a reporter’s eye and an insider’s perspective, Eric Garcia indicates what it’s want to be autistic throughout America.
Garcia started out writing approximately autism due to the fact he become pissed off via way of means of the media’s insurance of it; the myths that the ailment is because of vaccines, the slim portrayals of autistic human beings as white guys operating in Silicon Valley. His personal lifestyles as an autistic character didn’t appearance some thing like that. He is Latino, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and works as a journalist overlaying politics in Washington D.C. Garcia found out he had to positioned into writing what such a lot of autistic human beings were pronouncing for years; autism is part of their identity, they don’t want to be fixed.
In We’re Not Broken, Garcia makes use of his personal lifestyles as a springboard to talk about the social and coverage gaps that exist in assisting the ones at the spectrum. From training to healthcare, he explores how autistic human beings struggle with structures that have been now no longer constructed with them in mind. At the equal time, he stocks the reports of all forms of autistic human beings, from people with better help needs, to autistic human beings of color, to the ones withinside the LGBTQ network. In doing so, Garcia offers his network a platform to articulate their personal needs, instead of having others talk for them, which has been the usual for a ways too long.
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