Participants List 2022

 Autistics

Christiana J. MacLeod Autistic for Life (See Trigger Warnings)

Ira Eidle Autistics Speaking Day Demonstrates what "Nothing About us Without Us" Actually Means

Corina Becker Wibbly Wobbly Thoughts

David Cameron Staples (Catsidhe) Who Speaks for Us?

Participants List 2021

Ira Eidle Autistic Archive

Ilona Mennerich Petition Autism Bavaria

oneautisticperson Autistics Speaking Day 2021: A challenge for Academics

Giraffe Party Daily Question

Kat Autistics Speaking Day 2021

David Cameron Staples (Catsidhe) It's a Dream Life

Saoirse Autistic Speaking Day:AAC, Paganism, faith and communication access

Emma Goodall We Matter

Participants List 2020

 Autistics

Jane Strauss #AutisticsSpeakingDay - Autistics Speaking in 2020

Leeanne Marshall It Is Time

J.T. Buchheit Autistic talents in the workplace are going to waste

Sam Passer In: A Look Into The World Of Autism (see content warnings)

Kat Bjørnstad Police and the Autistic (See content warnings)

Ben Edwards Not Special Needs

Corina Becker A Small Thing

Jay Autistics Speaking (See content warnings) 

Other

Fierce Autie posted Autistic History: Autistic Speaking Day

Participants List 2019

10th Anniversary

Autistic Participants

Devin S. Turk Autistic Out Loud: an essay on Stimming and Autism Acceptance
Nora How do you see me? (content warnings: anxiety)
Nightengale Script the script, I pray you, trippingly on the tongue
Joelle Marie Being autistic... in September (see content warnings: discussion of suicide prevention strategies)
Leeanne Marshall On misunderstandings again
Catsidhe (David Cameron Staples) But I don't feel disabled
chavisory Would you believe your own child?
Cassandra Crosman How Embracing Neurodiversity Helped Me to Find Myself
Alyssa Literally Speaking About Not-Always-Speaking on Autistics Speaking Day
Jane Strauss #Autisticsspeakingday, tenth edition
Leo Jones A Letter to Jeanafer
Christina-Marie "The Gonzo Mama" Wright Growing Up Autistic Without a Diagnosis, and the Importance of Community
Alex Kronstein Acceptance should not be contingent on how useful we are to the rest of the world

Participants List 2018

Autistics

Sean Callaghan Life on the Spectrum (see content warnings)
Nicolette Cetrulo The Desexualization of Women with Disabilities Should Not Be an Unspoken Issue
C.L. Bridge To My Preteen Self on Autistics Speaking Day and "Actually, It's Crooked": Autism and Precocious Speech
Carolina Rutz Without Apology (See Content Warnings)
Autisticeducator Here’s the Thing About Language
Devin S. Turk Autism, Transmasculine Identity, and Invisibility , Behind The Mask , and The Joys of Autistic Life
Castiel Hannon Stimming
Cat Daly Eh, Who Needs A Brain Anyway? (See Content Warnings)
Becca Lory Hector, CAS, BCCS Where Are My Adult Autism Supports, Dammit?!
Courtney Johnson No, I’m Not “Overcoming” Autism
Kate Ross - Cherry Blossom Tree I have a lot to say (a poem)
endever* Happy Autistics Speaking Day!
Ben Edwards The Country of Autistic People
Leeanne Marshall Autistics Speaking Day 2018
Nightengale Amplifying Autistics
Fallon Mydske Autistics Speaking Day 2018
Jane Nine Years On from AS Day #1
Autismdoggirl Brain fog autistic speaking spray 2018
Anita M. King Body Language
Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. #AutisticsSpeakingDay2018 Post: A Call to Intertwine Race into the Autistic Community
Seven C. Den, I'm so fucking tired (see Content Warning), and Where was heaven?
David Cameron Staples (aka Catsidhe) Autism 101
Fiona Dry Eyes Album (See Content Warnings)
Tagm They Were Wrong

Julian Edward Frost Autistics' Speaking Day: Learning about autism, learning about myself


Allies

Florencia Ardon Why do we teach our kids to "behave"?

Participants List 2017

Autistics

Courtney Johnson - The Case for Identity-first
Anonymous Guest on Samantha Hack's Tumblr - Sparrows and Penguins
C.L. Bridge - I’m Not “Other”, I’m Your Classmate
Cyndi/butterflyinthewell - The Heart Asks For Pleasure First
Leonard Corey Philip - Neurodiversity Theory: An Introduction
Paula Jones - Understanding the female aspire in your life. (see content warnings)
Carolina Rutz - Of Acceptance and Kisses from Silver Charm (see trigger warnings)
K. Bron Johnson - We're Not As Divided As You Believe
Dani Alexis - Sad Little Autistics Can't Get Girlfriends and That's Not a Bad Thing
Rachel Waters - The Woman Who Mistook Herself for a Sociopath
Nicolette - An Open Letter to Autism Speaks
Christy Walk - We Are Still Here and Not Going Anywhere
Leeanne Marshall - Autistics Speaking Day: On Understandings
chavisory - Autistics Speaking Day 2017: What I would say to autistic people who want a cure
echolaliachamber - My body is not your empathy gimmick
Nika Rivilis - "I Wish You Knew."  (Removed by author's request)
Dallas Brogden - Stop attacking us and start listening to us: Autistic adults (see trigger warnings)
Jane Au Strauss - #Autistics Speaking Day (see trigger warnings)
Tamsin Parker - Force of Habit
Janey Colbourne - Nonverbal Day Today
Janey Colbourne - #ADHD and #ASD do they make a good couple?
Catsidhe - Words Cut (see trigger warnings) 
Paula Jones - Adventures of an autistic business owner (see content warnings)
Vanissar Tarakali - Somatics on the Spectrum (see content warnings)
Spekkio - How the Victorian Public Service discriminates against autistic graduates (see trigger warnings) 
Alyssa - "Speaking" to academia #ASDay
TimeTravellingGirl - Autistics Speaking Day: Special Interests and Autism
AutismDogGirl - We need to stop treating AAC as a last ditch option and more
Corina Becker - For ASDay 2017 and Ever After
Adelaide Dupont - Does the happy autist have a history? (see trigger warnings)
Brigid Rankowski - La La La, I'm so Happy
tahrab - The assessment and The supermarket (see trigger warnings)

Participants List 2016

Autistic 

Duke Rumbles. 
Cassie Autistics Speaking Day 2016: The Journey From Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance and the Forging of Identity
Catsidhe On Autism and the sensation of Time.
Sara Kerkstra writes A Simple Desire (And other blogs)
C. L. Bridge My Personality Is Not a Sub-Type Presentation
Christy Walk I Am Autistic, and I am Valid (Trigger Warnings)
ActingNT (Daniel Au Valencia) Acceptance Must Not Become a Buzzword
Mx. Vera Didenko INFJs, Old Souls, and Vera
Leeanne Marshall An Unplanned Entry
Dr Levinstein I Will Not Rest
Julian Frost Autistics' Speaking Day: Autism in South Africa - an opportunity lost
Tuttleturtle Today I am silent
FeministAspie Autistics Speaking Day 2016: Affirmations For You
Kit Mead You call me expressive and miss the struggle it takes and On everything I love and want to succeed (Trigger Warnings)
Nora What Can I Say? (Trigger Warnings)
Michelle Sutton Autism does define me
Alyssa Silence of Absence
Neurodivergent K things you don't want to hear
Kris This Genderqueer Autistic is Speaking Out on Autistics Speaking Day (Trigger Warnings)
Dani Alexis Love's Austere and Lonely Offices (Trigger Warnings)
Caycilia Marble (A Poem)
Leia Solo Autistic Speaking
Michael Scott Monje Jr. That One Time I Had to Strike Against the IWW (Trigger Warnings)
R. Larkin Taylor-Parker Being a Welcoming Community
Nightengale Writing the Brochure I Want to Read in the World
NonSpeakingNonSilent i'm just going to be me and The actual Autism crisis
Amythest Schaber The problem is less that autistic people aren’t speaking, and much more that non-autistic people won’t stop.
Mintythings Authenticity (Trigger Warning)
Riki If you Value Autistics Return our voices
Kathryn Bjornstad-Kelly ASDay Post

Jane Strauss Autistics Speaking Day yet again

Participation List 2015

Autistics

Liese Autistics Speaking Day (2014) (content warning: bullying, social pressures, self-taught "quiet hands")
Louise Representation (2014)
Magenta The Big Open-Ended Question: On Loving and Accepting My Asperger’s
Briana I am invisible
Merlin L. Taylor, Jr. RIGHTS OF ADULTS WITH AUTISM
Ultimate Oddball Thoughts On The Spectrum  (See content warning for video)
Data We Are Valid We Are Humans
Kit Mead Building Hope
AutismDogGirl Coming out, telling friends and family you communicate using AAC
 Malcolm Mayfield Autism has a ‘voice’, and it is getting louder
TuttleTurtle Acknowledging Me
Jane Strauss Is Anybody Listening? Does anybody care?
Ari Ne'eman Our Autistic Future 
Angel the Alien In My Life
khawkgirl Finding my Voice Again for Autistics Speaking Day (Warning for cyber-bullying, anxiety and silencing of communication.)
Leia Solo Experts in our own lives
Merlin L. Taylor, Jr.  Wonderglow Static 
Ben Edwards Living the Autistic Mythos
Leeanne Marshall ‘Nothing about us without us’ except….
EmmaGoodall Autistics speaking
Daniel Obejas Family: A Love Letter to Autistic Space
@pocketapocketa Radical Transparency
FeministAspie IRL
Paul Wady Guerilla Aspies on the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe - Preamble
Julian Frost Autistics' Speaking Day: on my voice and identity
Finn Gardiner Stop presuming incompetence, Autism Parents. (Content Warning: emotional abuse, shame-based training, anti-autistic sentiment and fundamentalist religion) 
Jamie An autistic, speaking: learning I was Autisitic. (content warning for ableism and eating disorders mention)
Kathy McKeown Autism Walking A Red Road
Mx. Vera Didenko Autistics Speaking Day, the Oberammergau Passion Play, and Vera (Content warning for brief mentions of masturbation and antisemitism)
R. Larkin Taylor-Parker Autistics Speaking Day 2015 (TW/CW for mentions of death.)
Sonia Boué Green Canoe 1 & 2
Annette Sugden Why Today Is Important To Me
Nightengale Autistic ear, autistic voice
Sparrow Rose Jones Who Do I Speak For? - Autistics Speaking Day 2015
Alyssa Yes That Too Autistics Speaking Day 2015
Catsidhe Cages and Sanctuaries (Content Warning for discussion of isolation and restraints. )
Cara Flower Honoring the founders of Autistic Community. Whom I feel grateful to & for on Autistics Speaking Day.
Tina Brooks Life as an Autistic Person Confounds Me and it is Awesome!
Zoey G. Autism Dos Speak, But Who Exactly Is Talking?
Nat / @quarridors Podcasting From Autistic Space
Irma Zoulane I have a voice - Autistics Speaking Day 2015
Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone Autistics Speaking Day 2015: Appliances Talk
Autistic Family Collective Q & A Session: November
Autistic Vegan Silenced
Tom (Autistic Genius) (content on the following links have not be viewed for trigger and content warnings)



Allies

Dave Farrell Inclusive Education Plan
Dave Jersey  News report action alert: Association for Behavior Analysis International "approves" Judge Rotenberg (electroshock "treatment/torture") Center. (Trigger/Content Warning for discussion on ABA and the Judge Rotenberg Center.)
Dave Jersey Reward and Consent (Trigger/Content Warning for discussion on ABA and the Judge Rotenberg Center.)
Rainbowsaretoobeautiful (Ann H) Our Terribly Truthful Child

Participation Post 2014

I should have had this out earlier. For that, I apologize.  But here are our 2014 Participants!

Amy Sequenzia, If You Walk on Issy's Shoes (see trigger warnings) 

chavisory, When I hear you say
Ben Edwards, Ten Examples that Show Violence Against Autistics is Alive and Well in American Culture (see trigger warnings) 
Stimmycat, Glimpses of unseen autism
Hannah B on being autistic, not okay
Haley Outlaw (My) Autistic History
n8chz The real reason I'm an anagorist
Alice Hewitt, Cages (see trigger warnings) 
Bigger On The Inside, ASD, ASD and ASD (see trigger warning)
Jane Strauss Âû, Insult or Compliment?
AutismDogGirl, Autism speaking day there is just to much to say
Emma Goodall, Hyperfocus as a useful tool
Daniel Obejas, Communication Shutdown or Autistics Speaking Day: Which will you celebrate?
Trebled Galaxies, Thoughts of the Neurodivergent Twin
FeministAspie, Human
Catsidhe, To Whom Am I Speaking?
ischemgeek, Autistic ways of reacting
Amanda MillsAmanda Mills (@NaturentheCity on Twitter) , Pride (and Shame)
Becca, I'm Tired
Abby, Being an Unperson
Kristin Guin, To all my fellow autistic people
Kit Mead , Autistic Pride and What You Need to Know (See Trigger Warnings)
Timotheus "Pharaoh" Gordon , The State of the Black Autist
Neurodivergent K, It's Autistics Speaking Day & I have not much to say

Ole Ferme l'Oeil Un Lieu pour nous/ A Place for us

Michael Scott Monje Jr. Spoken Word From Shaping Clay (#CRCon #Neuroqueer followup)

Morénike Onaiwu Speaking Truth to Power

Iris Gray, Is There a Difference Between Autism and Asperger's Syndrome?

Mandy Klein, Communication and Me Updated Version for Autistics Speaking Day 2014

R. Larkin Taylor-Parker, Hope Says 'Yes'

Participation Post 2013

Contributors List

Autistic Contributors Alyssa, Yes, That Too: Autistics Speaking Day 2013
Alana, Written Words
Abby, A Story Told In Autism
Michael Scott Monje, Jr., I am at peace (with killing my socially constructed self) (see Trigger Warnings)
Leeanne Marshall, Autistics Speaking Day: My Pathway
Autisticook, Fear (See Trigger Warnings)
Sparrow Rose Jones, Autistics Speaking Day 2013
Cynthia Kim, Autistic as a Reclaimed Word
Nicole Nicholson, Isolation, Loneliness, and the Angry Aspie (See Trigger Warnings) 
Amy Sequenzia, My Fingers Speak
Ibby Grace, I Speak To Thank
Ash Satoshi, My Life in Singapore: A Message For Autistics Speaking Day
Matt Friedman, Real Monsters of Autism (See Trigger Warnings)
FeministAspie, You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party
Patricia Elaine Chandler, The Unaltruistic Nature of Autism Speaks
Alexandra Holt, Regression. Does it Really Exist?
Nicole Nicholson, a bright light jolted Aanteekwa awake (See Trigger Warnings)
Joe Andrew Campos, We're All Awesome
Amy Sequenzia, Autistics Are Speaking
Steve Summers, An Autistic Social Issue: Dismissal and Disrespect
Rayn, Autistics Speaking Day 2013!
Jasun Horusly, The Book I Read: Jonathan Lethem’s Infinity Loop
Jasun Horsley, How Am I not Myself
Queerability, Queerability
Bird Gardener, Finding My Voice
Nightengale, Speaking from the shadows
Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone, Impact
khawkgirl, Autistic Vloggers and Autistics Speaking Day- LAFA
Bridget Allen, My Value: Autism, Feminism, and Poverty
"Aspie Kent", Being Myself
Jennifer Hughes, People Like Us (See Trigger Warnings) 
rattiepuff, Why I speak (See Trigger Warnings) 
Catsidhe, Autism on TV isn't always done wrong (See Trigger Warnings) 
Jodie Gray, Shared and Different Voices (See Trigger Warnings) 
The MoUsY spell-checker, "So you mean you're an engineer?"
Rainbow Goddess, Autistic person speaking
Tuttleturtle, But what about those florescent lights?
Judy Endow, Words for Autistics Speaking Day
Paul, A helpful guide to my elementary school (see Trigger Warnings)

Ally Contributors 
Sharon Bergman, Chickens and Autism
Autismum, Autistics Speaking Day 2013
Kelly Green, Convergence
PK, When autistic people speak their truth, just listen

Thank you all for your hard work!!  You are the success of ASDay 2013!!

Participation List 2012

We're getting ready for Autistic Speaking Day 2013, so before I forget (many times again), here is the participation list for 2012!!

Thank you all for your contributions and to all of our volunteers for helping make ASDay a success!!  


Autistic Contributors

Communication and Me! by Autiemom at Tales from an Autism Family


Flapping To Kalamazoo (a poem for Autistics Speaking Day) by Rebecca Loggenberg on Autistic-Me

The Joy of STRIPES by Paula C. Durbin-Westby on her blog paulacdurbinwestbyautisticblog.  and The Big (and Ableist) Difference between Self-Diagnosed and "Professionally" Diagnosed Autistics

To You, Young Autistic Friend by Amy Sequenzia Trigger Warning for the possibility of ableist comments

Jane Strauss writes Autistics Speaking Day on Facebook Trigger Warning for brief mentions of abuse

Autistics Speaking Day 2012 by Sparrow Jones on Unstrange Mind: Remapping My World

E (The Third Glance) writes Autistics Speaking Day 2012: There's a Flap for That on The Third Glance


Kassiane writes Autistics Speaking Day: This is Why We Need It (lessons learned from talking to Orycon) on Radical Neurodivergence Speaking

Catsidhe writes Independence through reliance upon others on LiveJournal

Leeanne Marshall writes Autistics Speaking Day: On Communication... on OneAutisticPerson tumblr

Lydia at Autistic Hoya writes A Troubling Trend at Sci-Fi Cons Trigger Warning: Ableism, brief cissexist and binarist quote, and descriptions of ableist encounters. 

Cynthia writes This Is My Normal on Musings of an Aspie

Malcolm Mayfield writes Autistic Speaking Day on tumblr

Autism Is Gray by Lori Berkowitz on LoriB.me

Intolerance is Intolerable, and Ignorance is Not to be Ignored by The Autistic Dude on The Autistic Dude in a Neurotypical World

2012, An Anniversary written by Corina Becker at No Stereotypes Here

Alyssa Zisk wrote Autistics Speaking EVERY Day

Andrew Edward Collins writes The Anxiety of Publishing

Rayn writes Autistics Speaking Day 2012! on AcidRayn.com

@xcoffeezombiex writes Autistics Speaking Day on More Than Disorganised

Matt Friedman writes Tiny Island on Dude, I'm An Aspie.

From Elizabeth J. (Ibby) Grace comes Autistics Speaking Day 2012: My Ode to Dapples on Tiny Grace Notes (AKA Ask an Autistic)

Acknowledging Growth by MainJelly at anabellelistic.com

Lucas Scheelk has written a poem Descendant on tumblr

Autistics Communicating Day written by N M Silber on extemporarysanity

chavisory has written Happiness, for Autistics Speaking Day on Chavisory's Notebook

Liam, or @autistliam on Twitter, has written An Unforgettable Smile

Maple writes Autistics Speaking Day: Autism and Spirituality on her tumblr Faeries-Cupboard 

Mahina has written frequently on from aloha to arizona

Louise Parker has a series of posts called Bad Advice on The Cat's Aunt.

My Doggy Personality and 2012 Walk Now For Autism Speaks (Atlanta, GA) by Timotheus "Pharaoh" Gordon on Pharaoh's Principles (via Abilities to the Arts)


Speak Your Mind by Smuggy Bunny on Autistic And Awesome

Autistics Speaking Day 2012: Reclaiming Voice by Ari Ne'eman, ASAN

First Contact by Jessica Banks (@ProfBanks on Twitter) on her blog Jessica Banks schools you.


Ru has written Accepting Herself on tumblr

Standing by Duckie

I am Autistic and I am Tired by Steve Summers on Facebook

Adkyriolexy writes Changing The Odds on Kyriolexy

Autistics Speaking Day, 2012 by Nightengale on Nightengale of Samarkand LiveJournal

Bridget Allen writes No Safe Spaces on It's Bridget's Word   Trigger warning for mentions of hate speech.

Happily Clueless writes Why I can't speak as Autistic, yet on Happily Clueless

When Other People Don’t Get It by Danni Brennand on Dannilion.com

Jo’s Autistics Speaking Day Post on tumblr Trigger warning for mentions of suicide

Peter Seebach, aka Seebs, writes Autistics Speaking Day: Predictably relatively quiet on seebs.net 

R. Larkin Taylor-Parker posts Autistic Speaking on tumblr 

Bard writes Nerds in the Bedroom on Prism*Song NSFW Trigger Warning for Adult Content, discussion of sex and sexuality

Alexander Cheezem writes On Autistics Speaking Day on A View From The Boundaries

Mental Tides by Laura/Light It Up Boo on Facebook


Meditations on Behavior Policing by Michael Scott Monje Jr. on Shaping Clay Trigger warning for isolation-related PTSD

My Video Blog for Autistics Speaking Day by Rainbow on Youtube.

Katharine E Annear writes Cure vs Acceptance in the context of Neurodiversity – Autistics Speaking on AUTAP.COM

Kai writes Upon Tomorrow on The Next Ten Words

Lady Ashmire writes Late ASDay post ( or untitled)


Squiditty writes Stories Seldom Seen Trigger warning for ableism, ableist murder, discussion of victims lives


Nickolas D writes My History on Self- Determine and Independent through Autism


J. Gray writes Autistics Speaking Day this year




Allistic Contributors

Autismum has posted Autistics Speaking Day 2012 on Autismum

Kelly at OneQuarterMama has submitted her piece Different is Not Wrong


Media Coverage

Sharon daVanport at the Autism Women's Network has written Autistics Speaking Day 2012: Two Years Since it all Began

Volunteers
Alyssa Zisk
Seebs
Kathryn
Corina