Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: On Autistic Humanity

Chapter One: We Already Are Human Beings

Chapter Two: Different, Not Less

Part II: Children

Chapter Three: Intensive Early Intervention

Chapter Four: Education?

Chapter Five: School Discipline

Part III: Getting By

Chapter Six: Employment

Chapter Seven No Reliable Source of Income

Part IV: Health Care

Chapter Eight: Physical Health

Chapter Nine: Mental Health

Part V:  The Stuff of Nightmares

Chapter Ten: Police Violence

Chapter Eleven: Institutional Violence

Chapter Twelve: Filicide

Conclusion: Holding on to Hope