BOOK CLUB #07: True Biz

In this episode of The Autistic Culture Book Club:

Autistic podcast hosts, Dr. Angela Lauria and Matt Lowry, LPP, discuss “True Biz” by Deaf author, Sara Novic. Topics include:

• ASL (American Sign Language), BASL (Black ASL), and Deaf culture.

• “Big-D Deaf” vs “little-d deaf.”

• The parallels between Deaf culture and Autistic culture. Including: “therapies” that are meant to disguise disability rather than embrace it.

• The symptoms of ableism that society thinks are “symptoms” of disabilities.

• Eugenics. What it means to be part of a culture that doctors are trying to eradicate through gene manipulation.