Bascom has an outsized impact on the modern neurodiversity movement. Here’s why it matters that a woman is leading that charge. AutismAcceptanceMonth MsReads
Bascom has experienced that firsthand: She didn’t receive her diagnosis until she was in her early teens.
“I was learning all of this really scary information about my brain and about my future,” Bascom recalled. “But at the same time, I was connecting to people who were telling me, ‘You’re going to be OK. There are a lot of people like you out there. You have value and worth and rights. I don’t think most autistic teenagers experience that when they start learning about autism.”
Almost a decade ago, Bascom started working for the new Autistic Self Advocacy Network, initially working on an anthology book project, but she soon transitioned to policy work. ASAN has provided an autistic voice in legislative discussions, emphasizing that autistic people can speak for themselves. The organization’s founding was largely a reaction to the absence of autistic leadership in advocacy.
Ari Ne’eman founded ASAN in 2006, when he was still a teenager. Ne’eman subsequently had a meteoric rise in Washington policy circles. In 2009, he was appointed to then-President Barack Obama’s National Council on Disability, a role he held up until 2016, when handed the reins to Bascom. “I think one of the hardest transitions any organization has to make is from its founder to its next executive director. She has very much made the organization her own.
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