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Autism in Latin American Communities

October 15, 2021      Leave a Comment

This blog post is an adapted transcript from the above video; click to watch [with captions]. Traducción al español aquí: Autismo en Las Comunidades Latinoamericanas. Hi, I'm Kayley Whalen, an autistic, transgender Puerto Rican and Guatemalan-American. I'm right now in Huehuetango, Guatemala, and I've been spending the last several months researching autism in Latin American cultures. I created this blog/video to explain some key facts about our community. Why I'm using the term Latine One note on language for this video/blog is that there's some debate around what term to use for people with Latin American heritage. One of the older terms that I grew up with and many people still use is "Hispanic," which is based on the language of Spanish. Now, because I'm specifically talking ...

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