Autistic Self Advocacy Network

This statement is available as a PDF here.

Last week, the Supreme Court made a decision in the court case Louisiana v. Callais. The court case was about making sure e...

ASAN April Newsletter

Dear friend,

This Autism Acceptance Month has been a challenging one, but our community has continued to fight back against attacks on our rights.

Over the last year, many powerful people have been telling lies about autism. People in the government have told lies about a...

by Diane J. Wright, Founder of Autastic®
Created for Autistic Self-Advocacy Network

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This goes out to all of you who learned, or are learning, you’re autistic after decades of running in overdrive. How is it possible that your being autistic went under the radar all this time? Here are a few reasons that are often shared inside our

Formal Language

Yesterday, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) met for the first time under the second Trump Administration. The IACC did not meet at all during 2025 despite being required to by law. Since then, HHS Secretary Kennedy has replaced the Committee’s public membership with handpicked allies with a range of fringe views on autism. ASAN is concerned...

This statement is about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We call him RFK Jr. for short. RFK Jr. is the Secretary (leader) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS is the part of the government in charge of health care.

RFK Jr. has spent the past week speaking to Congress. Many of the things he said to Congress were lies. He said that...