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'''Amanda Baggs''' (born 1980) is an ] activist. In January 2007 she published a video on ] describing her experience as an ] person entitled ''In My Language''<ref>Baggs, Amanda. YouTube. Retrieved ] ].</ref> which became the subject of several articles on ].<ref>Gajilan, A. Chris. CNN, ], ]. Retrieved on ].</ref><ref name="Gupta">] CNN, ] ]. Retrieved on ].</ref><ref>Abedin, Shahreen. CNN, Anderson Cooper blog, ] ]. Retrieved on ].</ref> She also guest-blogged about her video on ]'s blog<ref name="listen">] CNN, Anderson Coooper blog, ] ]. Retrieved on ].</ref> and answered questions from the audience via email.<ref> CNN, Anderson Cooper blog, ] ]. Retrieved on ].</ref>
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'''Mel Baggs''' (born '''Amanda Melissa Baggs'''; August 15, 1980 – April 11, 2020), was an American ] blogger who predominantly wrote on the subject of ] and disability. At times, Baggs used a communication device to speak and referred to themself as a ] autistic. Revelations about Baggs's past created some uncertainty about their diagnosis.<ref name="slate1"/><ref name="Wolfman">{{cite magazine |last=Wolman |first=David |title=The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/02/ff-autism/ |magazine=Wired |date=25 February 2008 |accessdate=29 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488463 |title=Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures |publisher=NPR |date=2006-06-26 |accessdate=2013-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Erin Anderssen |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/autistics-we-dont-want-a-cure/article794913/page2/ |title='Autistics': We don't want a cure |publisher=The Globe and Mail |accessdate=2013-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/255136 |title=Kindergartners Vote Classmate With Disabilities 'Off the Island' |publisher=Digitaljournal.com |date= 24 May 2008|accessdate=2013-12-23}}</ref>


== Early life ==
On CNN, ] stated:<ref name ="Gupta"/>{{cquote|It really started me wondering about autism. Amanda is obviously a smart woman who is fully aware of her diagnosis of low-functioning autism, and quite frankly mocks it. She told me that because she doesn't communicate with conventional spoken word, she is written off, discarded and thought of as mentally retarded. Nothing could be further from the truth. As I sat with her in her apartment, I couldn't help but wonder how many more people like Amanda are out there, hidden, but reachable, if we just tried harder.}}
Baggs was born in ] on August 15, 1980, to Ronald and Anna (née Lynch) Baggs.<ref name="WaPo" /> In 1994, they attended ], ] and ], a college for gifted high school-aged teenagers, at age 14.<ref name="NYTObituary">{{cite news |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil |date=28 April 2020 |title=Mel Baggs, Blogger on Autism and Disability, Dies at 39 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/health/mel-baggs-dead.html |accessdate=29 April 2020}}</ref> Baggs moved from ] to ] in order to be closer to a friend in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Living With Autism In A World Made For Others |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/21/autism.amanda/index.html |publisher=CNN.com |accessdate=December 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 28, 2008 |title=The Language of Autism |url=http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/the-language-of-autism/ |publisher=Well.blogs.nytimes.com |accessdate=2013-09-29}}</ref><ref name="NYTObituary" />

==Work==
Baggs created a website titled "Getting the Truth Out", a response to a campaign by the ]. They claimed that the ASA's campaign made autistic people objects of pity.<ref name="NYTObituary" /> They also spoke at conferences about disabilities, and worked with ] scientists who were researching autism.<ref name=WaPo/>

In January 2007, Baggs posted a video on ] entitled "In My Language"<ref>{{Cite web|title=In My Language|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/JnylM1hI2jc |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|last=Baggs|first=Mel|date=14 January 2007|website=YouTube|access-date=23 February 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> on the topic of autism which became the subject of several articles on ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Living with autism in a world made for others|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/21/autism.amanda/index.html|last=Gajilan|first=A. Chris|date=February 22, 2007|website=CNN|access-date=2007-02-25}}</ref><ref name="Gupta">{{Cite web|title=Behind the veil of autism|url=http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/02/behind-veil-of-autism.html|last=Gupta|first=Sanjay|author-link=Sanjay Gupta|date=20 February 2007|website=CNN|access-date=2007-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Video reveals world of autistic woman|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/02/video-reveals-world-of-autistic-woman.html|last=Abedin|first=Shahreen|date=21 February 2007|website=CNN|access-date=2007-02-25}}</ref> Baggs also guest-blogged about the video on ]'s blog<ref name="listen">{{Cite web|title=Why we should listen to 'unusual' voices|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/02/why-we-should-listen-to-unusual-voices.html|last=Baggs|first=Mel|date=February 21, 2007|website=CNN|access-date=2007-02-25}}</ref> and answered questions from the audience via email.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amanda Baggs answers your questions|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/02/amanda-baggs-answers-your-questions.html|last=Baggs|first=Amanda|date=22 February 2007|website=CNN|access-date=2007-02-25}}</ref>
About Baggs, ] said:<ref name="Gupta"/>
{{blockquote| told me that because communicate with conventional spoken word, written off, discarded and thought of as mentally retarded. Nothing could be further from the truth. As I sat with in apartment, I couldn't help but wonder how many more people like Amanda are out there, hidden, but reachable, if we just tried harder.}}

Video artist ] stated he was, in a sense, envious of Baggs' stated empathic relationship to inanimate objects.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/a-thing-for-things/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614025042/http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/a-thing-for-things/|url-status=dead|title=Jonathan Griffin, A Thing for Things, ''Frieze'', Issue 160, January 2014.|archive-date=June 14, 2015}}</ref> The singing at the beginning of Leckey's video "Prop4aShw" is from Baggs' "In My Language".<ref>{{cite web|title=Mark Leckey|url=http://www.we-find-wildness.com/2014/06/mark-leckey/|website=We Find Wilderness|accessdate=11 June 2015}}</ref>

Baggs advocated for a consistent definition of autism awareness, claiming that awareness was misrepresented by both parents and some advocates. They wrote articles in two online blogs: "ballastexistenz" and "Cussin' and Discussin'".<ref name=NYTObituary/>

Baggs said they named their first blog "ballastexistenz" to show that people like them were capable of living a worthy life, since it was a historical term, "{{ill|Ballastexistenzen|de}}", used to describe disabled people as incapable.<ref name=Advocate/><ref name="WaPo">{{cite news |last1=Smith|first1=Harrison|title=Mel Baggs, influential blogger on disability and autism, dies at 39 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mel-baggs-influential-blogger-on-disability-and-autism-dies-at-39/2020/04/29/bbb0fdd2-8a24-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |accessdate=30 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Baggs described themself as genderless and ]<ref name="Advocate">{{cite news |last1=Padgett |first1=Donald |title=Mel Baggs, Noted Non-Binary and Autistic Blogger, Dies at 39 |url=https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/29/mel-baggs-noted-non-binary-and-autistic-blogger-dies-39 |accessdate=30 April 2020 |work=Advocate |date=29 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> in their writings. They also identified as a ] and used any pronouns except ''it'', though they preferred the ] sie/hir and ze/zer.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baggs |first1=Mel |title=SJ? Anti-SJ? Both? Neither? |url=https://withasmoothroundstone.tumblr.com/socialjustice |website=] |access-date=23 August 2021}}</ref>

Several classmates of Baggs have found the presence of their alleged impairments to be unusual, subsequently claiming that Baggs "spoke, attended classes, dated, and otherwise acted in a completely typical fashion."<ref name="slate1" /> According to these classmates, Baggs functioned as a typically developing adolescent, and began to suffer psychological problems after long-term use of heavy doses of ]s, resulting in a mental breakdown, after which Baggs withdrew from Simon's Rock and spent time in a psychiatric hospital. After leaving Simon's Rock, Baggs wrote extensively on ] in the late 1990s, discussing their drug use and mental breakdown, stating that they had been diagnosed with ], and theorizing that they may also have had ]. Baggs later stated that they did not have DID and apologized in 1997 for having "deceived" themselves and others when their true diagnosis was for schizophrenia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=apology|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.support.dissociation/c/d8n85pyzHx0/m/uskQjJuQXn0J|access-date=2021-04-21|website=groups.google.com}}</ref> In 2002, Baggs posted that they had been labeled with having ], rather than autism, by clinicians at ], which Baggs contested the accuracy of.<ref name=fact_dis>{{Cite web|title=Official Diagnosis|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.support.autism/c/6w3Rcyol0ww/m/xUVgzdIi6WUJ|access-date=2021-04-26|website=groups.google.com}}</ref>{{Not in source|date=November 2023}} Baggs did not dispute those details online when questioned after their 2007 CNN appearance, but claimed a loss of all functional speech in their 20s. Additionally, other autism advocates have also questioned the validity of their diagnosis, citing that Baggs did not meet many of the requirements of low functioning autism,<ref name="baggscontroversy">{{cite book |last1=Abreu |first1=Belinha S. De |last2=Mihailidis |first2=Paul |title=Media Literacy Education in Action: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-12372-7 |pages=41–42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JoBiAgAAQBAJ |accessdate=12 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Amanda Baggs Autism Controversy|title=Amanda Baggs Autism Controversy|url=http://abaggs.blogspot.com/|access-date=2021-04-21}}</ref><ref name=NYTObituary/><ref name="slate1" /> after which they contradicted their earlier assertions by claiming to have lost speech in their infancy.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://blog.donnawilliams.net/2007/07/03/putting-autism-on-trial-an-interview-with-amanda-baggs | title=Putting autism on trial: An interview with Amanda Baggs | date=July 3, 2007}}</ref> An article in ] stated that some of their past acquaintances had been threatened with legal action by attorneys employed by Baggs for challenging their story.<ref name="slate1">{{cite web|author=Amy S.F. Lutz |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/01/autism_neurodiversity_does_facilitated_communication_work_and_who_speaks.html |title=Autism neurodiversity: Does facilitated communication work, and who speaks for the severely autistic? |publisher=Slate.com |date=2013-01-16 |accessdate=2013-09-29}}</ref>

Baggs claimed that ] is somewhat common among autistic individuals, though they also supported the use of the controversial ] and other widely scientifically discredited alternative therapies.<ref name="FC">{{cite web |last1=Baggs |first1=Amanda |title=Autistic AAC Users |url=https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/06/26/autistic-aac-users/ |website=Ballastexistenz |accessdate=26 July 2019 |language=en |date=26 June 2006}}</ref> Baggs claimed to use FC, and that Fey, their cat, was their best facilitator as Fey moved their limbs around.<ref name="Fey">{{cite web |last1=Baggs |first1=Amanda |title=Real Supports: What works, what doesn't|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206144128/https://www.autcom.org/pdf/AutcomNLFall2006.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-06 |url=https://www.autcom.org/pdf/AutcomNLFall2006.pdf |website=Autism National Committee |accessdate=6 December 2019}}</ref>

In addition to autism, Baggs also claimed to have been diagnosed with ],<ref name="slate1" /> ],<ref name="slate1" /> ],<ref name="slate1" /> ],<ref name="slate1" /> and ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Baggs|first=Mel|title=Feeding tubes and weird ideas|date=May 2, 2013|url=http://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/feeding-tubes-and-weird-ideas/}}</ref> They wrote about numerous other syndromes and disabilities, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].

== Death ==
Baggs died on April 11, 2020, at the age of 39 in Burlington, Vermont; their mother said that the cause of their death was believed to be ].<ref name=NYTObituary/> They were survived by their mother, two brothers, and their grandmother.<ref name="WaPo" />

==Selected publications==
*{{cite book |last1=Baggs |first1=Mel |title=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline |date=2020 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-13-8437-0 |pages=77–86 |language=en |chapter=Losing}}<ref name="Frontline">{{cite book |last1=Baggs |first1=Mel |title=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement |chapter=Losing |publisher=Springer |pages=77–86 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_6 |date=2020|isbn=978-981-13-8436-3 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
*{{cite journal |last1=Picard |first1=Rosalind W. |last2=Smith |first2=Joel |last3=Baggs |first3=Amanda |title=Toward a voice for everyone |website=] }}<ref name="MIT">{{cite web |last1=Picard |first1=Rosalind W. |title=Toward a voice for everyone |url=https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/toward-a-voice-for-everyone/ |website=MIT Media Lab |accessdate=1 May 2020}}</ref>
*{{Cite news|title=Why we should listen to 'unusual' voices|last=Baggs|first=Amanda|date=February 21, 2007|website=CNN}}
*Baggs, Amanda. "In My Language" (YouTube, 2007)<ref name="medhum">{{cite web |last1=Garden |first1=Rebecca |title=In My Language |url=http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/12923 |website=medhum.med.nyu.edu |accessdate=1 May 2020}}</ref>


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
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* https://ameliabaggs.wordpress.com/ (Poetry and creative writing blog)
* https://withasmoothroundstone.tumblr.com/
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* https://ameliabaggs.tumblr.com/ (Personal prose)
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Latest revision as of 07:14, 18 December 2024

American blogger (1980–2020)

Mel Baggs
Baggs in 2008
BornAmanda Melissa Baggs
(1980-08-15)August 15, 1980
Mountain View, California, U.S.
DiedApril 11, 2020(2020-04-11) (aged 39)
Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Alma materDe Anza College
Simon's Rock
Known forAutism advocacy
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2006–2020
Genre(s)Autism advocacy, vlogs
Subscribers9.72 thousand
Total views5.13 million
Last updated: June 19, 2024
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Mel Baggs (born Amanda Melissa Baggs; August 15, 1980 – April 11, 2020), was an American non-binary blogger who predominantly wrote on the subject of autism and disability. At times, Baggs used a communication device to speak and referred to themself as a low-functioning autistic. Revelations about Baggs's past created some uncertainty about their diagnosis.

Early life

Baggs was born in Mountain View, California on August 15, 1980, to Ronald and Anna (née Lynch) Baggs. In 1994, they attended Harker School, De Anza College and Bard College at Simon's Rock, a college for gifted high school-aged teenagers, at age 14. Baggs moved from California to Vermont in order to be closer to a friend in 2005.

Work

Baggs created a website titled "Getting the Truth Out", a response to a campaign by the Autism Society of America. They claimed that the ASA's campaign made autistic people objects of pity. They also spoke at conferences about disabilities, and worked with Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists who were researching autism.

In January 2007, Baggs posted a video on YouTube entitled "In My Language" on the topic of autism which became the subject of several articles on CNN. Baggs also guest-blogged about the video on Anderson Cooper's blog and answered questions from the audience via email. About Baggs, Sanjay Gupta said:

told me that because communicate with conventional spoken word, written off, discarded and thought of as mentally retarded. Nothing could be further from the truth. As I sat with in apartment, I couldn't help but wonder how many more people like Amanda are out there, hidden, but reachable, if we just tried harder.

Video artist Mark Leckey stated he was, in a sense, envious of Baggs' stated empathic relationship to inanimate objects. The singing at the beginning of Leckey's video "Prop4aShw" is from Baggs' "In My Language".

Baggs advocated for a consistent definition of autism awareness, claiming that awareness was misrepresented by both parents and some advocates. They wrote articles in two online blogs: "ballastexistenz" and "Cussin' and Discussin'".

Baggs said they named their first blog "ballastexistenz" to show that people like them were capable of living a worthy life, since it was a historical term, "Ballastexistenzen [de]", used to describe disabled people as incapable.

Personal life

Baggs described themself as genderless and nonbinary in their writings. They also identified as a lesbian and used any pronouns except it, though they preferred the neopronouns sie/hir and ze/zer.

Several classmates of Baggs have found the presence of their alleged impairments to be unusual, subsequently claiming that Baggs "spoke, attended classes, dated, and otherwise acted in a completely typical fashion." According to these classmates, Baggs functioned as a typically developing adolescent, and began to suffer psychological problems after long-term use of heavy doses of psychedelic drugs, resulting in a mental breakdown, after which Baggs withdrew from Simon's Rock and spent time in a psychiatric hospital. After leaving Simon's Rock, Baggs wrote extensively on Deja News (now Google Groups) in the late 1990s, discussing their drug use and mental breakdown, stating that they had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and theorizing that they may also have had dissociative identity disorder. Baggs later stated that they did not have DID and apologized in 1997 for having "deceived" themselves and others when their true diagnosis was for schizophrenia. In 2002, Baggs posted that they had been labeled with having Munchausen syndrome, rather than autism, by clinicians at Stanford University Medical Center, which Baggs contested the accuracy of. Baggs did not dispute those details online when questioned after their 2007 CNN appearance, but claimed a loss of all functional speech in their 20s. Additionally, other autism advocates have also questioned the validity of their diagnosis, citing that Baggs did not meet many of the requirements of low functioning autism, after which they contradicted their earlier assertions by claiming to have lost speech in their infancy. An article in Slate stated that some of their past acquaintances had been threatened with legal action by attorneys employed by Baggs for challenging their story.

Baggs claimed that augmentative communication is somewhat common among autistic individuals, though they also supported the use of the controversial facilitated communication and other widely scientifically discredited alternative therapies. Baggs claimed to use FC, and that Fey, their cat, was their best facilitator as Fey moved their limbs around.

In addition to autism, Baggs also claimed to have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, dissociative disorder, psychotic disorder, schizophrenia, and gastroparesis. They wrote about numerous other syndromes and disabilities, including obsessive–compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, craniofacial abnormality, synesthesia, bronchiectasis, hypermobility, Irlen syndrome, and asthma.

Death

Baggs died on April 11, 2020, at the age of 39 in Burlington, Vermont; their mother said that the cause of their death was believed to be respiratory failure. They were survived by their mother, two brothers, and their grandmother.

Selected publications

  • Baggs, Mel (2020). "Losing". Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline. Springer. pp. 77–86. ISBN 978-981-13-8437-0.
  • Picard, Rosalind W.; Smith, Joel; Baggs, Amanda. "Toward a voice for everyone". MIT Media Lab.
  • Baggs, Amanda (February 21, 2007). "Why we should listen to 'unusual' voices". CNN.
  • Baggs, Amanda. "In My Language" (YouTube, 2007)

References

  1. ^ "About silentmiaow". YouTube.
  2. ^ Amy S.F. Lutz (January 16, 2013). "Autism neurodiversity: Does facilitated communication work, and who speaks for the severely autistic?". Slate.com. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  3. Wolman, David (February 25, 2008). "The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know". Wired. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  4. "Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures". NPR. June 26, 2006. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  5. Erin Anderssen. "'Autistics': We don't want a cure". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  6. "Kindergartners Vote Classmate With Disabilities 'Off the Island'". Digitaljournal.com. May 24, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Smith, Harrison. "Mel Baggs, influential blogger on disability and autism, dies at 39". Washington Post. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  8. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (April 28, 2020). "Mel Baggs, Blogger on Autism and Disability, Dies at 39". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  9. "Living With Autism In A World Made For Others". CNN.com. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  10. "The Language of Autism". Well.blogs.nytimes.com. February 28, 2008. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  11. Baggs, Mel (January 14, 2007). "In My Language". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2007.
  12. Gajilan, A. Chris (February 22, 2007). "Living with autism in a world made for others". CNN. Retrieved February 25, 2007.
  13. ^ Gupta, Sanjay (February 20, 2007). "Behind the veil of autism". CNN. Retrieved February 25, 2007.
  14. Abedin, Shahreen (February 21, 2007). "Video reveals world of autistic woman". CNN. Retrieved February 25, 2007.
  15. Baggs, Mel (February 21, 2007). "Why we should listen to 'unusual' voices". CNN. Retrieved February 25, 2007.
  16. Baggs, Amanda (February 22, 2007). "Amanda Baggs answers your questions". CNN. Retrieved February 25, 2007.
  17. "Jonathan Griffin, A Thing for Things, Frieze, Issue 160, January 2014". Archived from the original on June 14, 2015.
  18. "Mark Leckey". We Find Wilderness. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  19. ^ Padgett, Donald (April 29, 2020). "Mel Baggs, Noted Non-Binary and Autistic Blogger, Dies at 39". Advocate. Retrieved April 30, 2020.
  20. Baggs, Mel. "SJ? Anti-SJ? Both? Neither?". Tumblr. Retrieved August 23, 2021.
  21. "apology". groups.google.com. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  22. "Official Diagnosis". groups.google.com. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  23. Abreu, Belinha S. De; Mihailidis, Paul (2013). Media Literacy Education in Action: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives. Routledge. pp. 41–42. ISBN 978-1-135-12372-7. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  24. Amanda Baggs Autism Controversy. "Amanda Baggs Autism Controversy". Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  25. "Putting autism on trial: An interview with Amanda Baggs". July 3, 2007.
  26. Baggs, Amanda (June 26, 2006). "Autistic AAC Users". Ballastexistenz. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  27. Baggs, Amanda. "Real Supports: What works, what doesn't" (PDF). Autism National Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  28. Baggs, Mel (May 2, 2013). "Feeding tubes and weird ideas".
  29. Baggs, Mel (2020). "Losing". Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement. Springer. pp. 77–86. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_6. ISBN 978-981-13-8436-3.
  30. Picard, Rosalind W. "Toward a voice for everyone". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  31. Garden, Rebecca. "In My Language". medhum.med.nyu.edu. Retrieved May 1, 2020.

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