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“I still wake up with the smell of my own flesh burning in my nostrils some nights.”

     — A Judge Rotenberg Center Survivor

In What Today Withholds: Autism and Human Rights in America, Megan McLaughlin argues that American society often denies the humanity of autistic people and routinely treats them as less than human. She takes us on a harrowing journey through the many American institutions that neglect, reject, demean, punish, torture, and even kill autistics.  Her book reveals the discrimination they face as they go about their everyday lives and some of the reasons behind their appallingly short life expectancy. 

A retired professor from the University of Illinois, McLaughlin has spent twelve years investigating what autistic people themselves have to say about their lives and the way society treats them.  What Today Withholds skillfully deploys these autistic voices, as well as the latest research in a variety of fields, to expose deeply disturbing practices that still remain largely hidden from the American public.

 

What Today Withholds is available as a paperback and as an ebook, on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites.

Members of the Media:  you can find the press kit for the book here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DqP_p9vcLWRMiwMbZV1Kfk4Xei8rsD8T?usp=drive_link

 

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