The autistic community is experiencing a safety crisis. Autistic people experience unacceptably high risks of education disparities, restraint and seclusion, poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, out-of-home placement via the child protection system, medical kidnapping, medical abuse, police violence, emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and filicide. The risk of state violence is amplified for autistic people of color. These aren’t hypothetical far-off concepts to me. This is real life. Within my friend group, I could name someone who has been impacted by each horror on that list.
