Today’s episode discusses the increasing inaccessibility of higher education and essential care professions for autistic individuals, especially those with higher support needs. It argues that a quiet policy shift regarding student loan deferment and the rise of technology-based “solutions” are dismantling the very infrastructure that supports autistic people, effectively pricing out human care in favour of less nuanced, often exclusionary, automated alternatives. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, highlights how these changes not only prevent autistic individuals from accessing necessary services but also bar them from entering these professions themselves, leading to a recursive collapse of support. Ultimately, Dr. Hoerricks advocates for community-led, mutual aid initiatives as a crucial form of resistance and survival against a system designed to erase them.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-future-theyre-building-has-no
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