tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33699964.post5686428894736001053..comments2024-01-31T04:09:58.865-08:00Comments on And Stimming With Rainbows of Every Design: The point of intentional communities is that they're *intentional.*Danechihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14715809181199553925noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33699964.post-66180101993591977942008-08-27T14:48:00.000-07:002008-08-27T14:48:00.000-07:00Hi Danechi,I'm going to chime in with Tera, that y...Hi Danechi,<BR/><BR/>I'm going to chime in with Tera, that your parents' involving you (and *ONLY* you? They seriously hadn't "taken autistic perspectives into account" before?!) at this late stage in the community's planning does not indicate any commitment on the community planners' parts to creating a community by or for autistics. <BR/><BR/>(I am an autistic woman looking to start a neurodiverse intentional community, so yes, this topic is a big deal for me.)Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860246538349067232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33699964.post-48418615926249579462008-08-18T09:18:00.000-07:002008-08-18T09:18:00.000-07:00She and my father still want me to attend the meet...<I>She and my father still want me to attend the meeting, because they think that maybe I could urge them to take autistic perspectives into account in this whole process.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps I'm just too cynical and jaded, but I'm not sure it's worth bothering.</I><BR/><BR/>I agree with you--even if they took autistic perspectives into account, the basic idea of the thing is a problem. (For instance, for it to be an intentional community for autistic people, autistic people would've already had to have been deeply involved with its planning already.Terahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13952541928607833596noreply@blogger.com