Jim Sinclair (activist)

Jim Sinclair (* October 1940 in Lamesa, Texas) is an autistic activist.

Life

Born a girl, Sinclair sees itself today as intersex and wants to be seen as gender neutral. Sinclair wants xe with the Geschlechtspronomen, a "neutral " prestigious neologism analogous to the English he and she are called.

Sinclair began at the age of twelve years to speak, usually no longer start talking in an age in which autistic children. According to information provided Sinclair did not know that language is there, mutually something to say. Sinclair has been used in many ways for the rights of autistic people and is therefore to be regarded as autism activist.

According to his own statements Sinclair would like to be considered autistic person and not as a person with autism, because autism is to be Sinclair's opinion, not an appendix, but a kind that colors every sensation and every perception and thus is inseparable from the person. Sinclair wrote several articles about autism, including not mourn us, which is addressed to the parents of autistic children and this prompts you to did not get their sadness, not a "normal " child to skip to their existing autistic child.

Another in the German article applies Sinclair is What does it mean to be different? Describing the autism from an internal perspective and show that it is nothing bad to be autistic and people their standards they create autistic people, should reconsider. After Sinclair's view of autistic people do not work better or worse, but just different and if one confronts them with a positive attitude and making them do things the way they know best, they will achieve much more.

Sinclair is the director of the Autism Network International.

Article

By Jim Sinclair published and translated into German article:

• Do not mourn for us
• What does it mean to be different?

• Autism in the culture
• Americans
• Born in 1940
• Woman
• Transgender person