Comments on: What is wrong with The Labour Party’s “Autism Neurodiversity Manifesto” and autism identity politics?

By: Wendy Quick

Wendy Quick — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:25:29 +0000

Yes by putting out there that inclusion and acceptance can also exclude that is true. This is a paradox. It is the illusion of inclusion., and it occurs when disabled people are physically present in spaces, but are subjected to marginalisation, tokenism, or environments that fail to meet their needs. We get tokenism and superficial inclusion as a band-aid solution, feturing a disabled person in marketing or having a single disabled employee can create an appearance of inclusion without changing the underlying, inaccesible culture.We get things like inpirational stereotyping, physical presence without proper support, othering and attiutudinal barriers and so much more. The has to be more monitoring of these problems and more. We know that Autism is a spectrum and not everyone with Autism has the same experiences or needs.

By: Pault

Pault — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:26:45 +0000

Maybe a petition would be a good idea before the next election.

The ND paradigm is so absurd it’s hard to believe NTs believing it. Maybe the party needs to be educated.

By: Paul Moran

Paul Moran — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:23:50 +0000

Amazing article. Brilliantly written. I would like to work with the author to raise awareness of this and attempt to steer the political agenda in a different direction.

By: John Stone

John Stone — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:52:41 +0000

This is very disturbing – thank you for this faultless article.