Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People (Good Life) - Softcover

Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business, Good Trouble: Building a Successful Life & Business on the Spectrum, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, Make a Zine, The CIA Makes Science Fiction Unexciting, Proud to be Retarded, Bicycle Culture Rising, and more. He is the director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, including Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland, $100 & A T-Shirt, and the Groundswell film series. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy described Biel as "not trained in pedagogy." He lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net Partly Robot, the alter ego of Andrew Coltrin, writes and blogs about feeling more than human in a world of mere humans. Partly stumbled upon his Autism diagnosis after he stopped in used bookstores and started working in schools. After burning out on being an English teacher, he's been an undercover angel working in special ed programs of schools in Arizona and Oregon. He also writes odd things and periodically posts on his website PartlyRobot.com. He stands six-foot seven, three inches from heaven; he weighs three-oh-five and can whip any man alive! Eliot is half of killer banshee, a multifaceted collaborative effort with Kriss De Jong dedicated to making and supporting queer art, music and literature. His visual work has been shown internationally, and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Kriss and Eliot have toured extensively, performing a combination of music and live video manipulation often called expanded cinema. The killer banshee studio has recorded and produced artists including Deep Dickollective and Tribe 8. He illustrates the inside and back covers. Hadley is ten-years-old and in the fifth grade. She is a feminist, an activist, and a contortionist. Her short story collection, Small Stories, published by La La La Press when she was seven, sold out of its first two printings. She raises money for causes she believes in and considers weird a compliment. Kate lives in Portland, OR with her daughter. They are both on the Autism Spectrum, a diagnosis she finds to be relieving, as she feels a strong sense of belonging in the autistic community and better understands her life. Gee23 would like you to remember that they are a person and an autistic person. Being autistic is not something that makes someone a second-class person. It is not something that needs to be fixed or cured or re-behaviored. Emily is 22 and still lives at home on Bainbridge Island with her parents. She was diagnosed at age eleven and has experienced not knowing what's wrong with her and battling with special education. She has been told her whole life to act this way by many NT's whom she knows only want to help. She has infiltrated into society and is a student of cyber-security at Washington Technology University.