Eric Garcia on Autistic Self-Advocacy: From Patients to Citizens

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Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts, Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Reporter Eric Garcia's new book -- “We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation” -- springs from his experience as a political correspondent and autistic person. Frustrated with the myths and stereotypes about autism found in the media, he set out to report on what autism really looks like and to ask autistic people what they really want and need. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/withfriendslikethese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox and welcome to With Friends Like These.
0:08.8	This week I'm talking to writer Eric Garcia.
0:11.7	He's covered politics for a long time in Washington and currently he's the senior Washington
0:16.4	correspondent for the Independent.
0:18.5	In fact, when we recorded this week, Eric was sitting on the third floor of the Capitol
0:22.9	Building in DC, waiting for the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations.
0:27.6	Eric is autistic.
0:29.7	And if that surprises you, well, it's not your fault.
0:34.5	Our culture still holds on to a lot of stereotypes and myths about autism, including the idea
0:39.1	that Eric as an autistic person with a real job and independent life is high functioning,
0:46.2	whereas other autistic people might be low functioning.
0:49.4	I wanted to have Eric on the show to talk about these stereotypes and myths, and his first
0:54.1	book, Out Right Now, We're Not Broken.
0:57.0	Changing the autism conversation.
0:58.9	He wrote it because, being both a reporter and autistic person, he was frustrated with
1:03.3	how the media covered autism and how policy failures have been the result of misconceptions
1:09.0	and stereotypes.
1:10.5	Stay tuned for a conversation about the difference between curing autism and actually supporting
1:18.1	autistic people.
1:19.4	Eric, welcome to the show.
1:23.7	Thank you for having me.
1:25.6	So I think I want to start with the language-run autism.
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