Nature Genetics — April 2026
Three documents address the same paper — Litman et al. (2025), Nature Genetics — from different angles. Read any one. They stand alone.
What They Actually Did
The Nature Genetics Autism Paper — What It Found, What It Claimed, and What That Costs
Plain-language companion. For the person who just got handed a label, for families, for advocates, for anyone who wants to know what this paper actually did and why it matters. No technical scaffolding required.
The Brother With the Wing
How a Nature Genetics Paper Gets the Map Wrong and What That Costs the People on It
Full technical and legal critique across thirteen sections with complete citations. Covers the statistics, the biology, the instruments, the cohort composition, the co-occurring conditions the model cannot see, the communication differences the instruments cannot reach, the legal architecture governing disability research, and the specific people the paper's story does not follow home.
Still Not Listening
Autism Speaks Called It Groundbreaking. The National Autistic Society Said It Could Cut Support. This Is Not A New Disagreement.
The institutional and historical context. Who called this paper groundbreaking, who said it could cut support, why that disagreement is forty years old, and what you can do with that information depending on who you are.
History & Politics — March 2026
The Fairy Tale Version
In response to: "Autism study is my life's work. The spectrum has lost all meaning" — Dame Uta Frith, The Times, March 2026
The history of autism diagnosis, Nazi euthanasia, disability rights, and the erasure of Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva. The spectrum hasn't lost all meaning. The argument for who gets to define it has not ended.
The MAiD Colouring Book
The Wooden Bowl and Canada's Lesson for Its Children
Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying legislation and its expansion to include disability as a criterion. What the policy says, what it does, and whose lives it structures.
These documents are published by Sister Grim through Very Autistic and Other Tales and the Human Support Network. The argument stands on its own. The evidence is the evidence regardless of who presents it. Nothing about us without us is not a slogan. It is a legal principle and a design standard.
crapwematter.com · humansupportnetwork.org