Devon Price

2 weeks ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

It’s only human to need help — but we have to be able to admit it. Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, or you can email questions to askdevonprice at gmail.

3 weeks ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

In the wake of RFK Jr’s Autism registry, is it really? “Diagnosis is a privilege.”How often have you heard an Autistic adult who came into that identity later in life use those words? I hope that RFK Jr’s plan to create a registry of all diagnosed Autistic individuals settles once and for all how much this is not the case. The choice to access a diagnosis is a privilege.

3 weeks ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

And what those feelings actually meant. It is child liberation month here on my blog, where we’ve been talking a lot about abolishing the family as a system that owns children, abolishing age as a determinant of who gets to have rights, and the need for us all to take on the collective responsibility of looking after children. We’ve also been exploring some of the common barriers that keep people from taking child liberation seriously.

1 month ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Ask questions, acknowledge your feelings — these are the growing pains of a radically new idea. I remember that I first encountered the concept of family abolition on Tumblr when I was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and that it made me massively uncomfortable. To remove the system of protection and nurturance that guide a young child’s life seemed to me to create a horrifying vacuum of meaning, into which absolutely anything could climb and take advantage.

1 month ago | devonprice.medium.com | Devon Price

Member-only storyAgainst the collective neglect of the young. Devon Price·Follow30 min read·--An adult mental health influencer refusing to engage in polite, public chit-chat with a minor. When I was in fourth grade, I made an America Online account. The handle I chose for myself was Batlover4, because I wanted to be a bat biologist when I grew up, and I was in the fourth grade. I started frequenting AOL’s game review community, the Antagonist Game Network (or ANT for short).