I did not set out to be an autism advocate.

I was formally identified as autistic at the age of 48, after a lifetime of feeling different without having the language to explain why. That realization led me to listen more closely to other autistic people and to notice how rarely our perspectives were centered in the systems that claim to support us.

Rather than telling people what to think about autism, I began asking questions. That approach became "A Reflective Question to Ponder," a project built on dialogue instead of debate. Over time, those questions sparked thousands of conversations about autism, power, ethics, and lived experience.

That work led to my first published book, "A Reflective Question to Ponder: 1,200 Questions on Autism to Foster Dialogue" followed by my second book, "Autism Advocacy Unleashed: A Socratic Journey to Social Justice," which explored autism advocacy through a justice-centered, autistic-led lens and offered tools for challenging entrenched assumptions.

This new book, "Burning the Behaviorist Blueprint: Exposing and Dismantling the ABA Empire" is the next step in that progression.

It moves from asking questions and mapping advocacy to directly examining one of the most powerful systems shaping autistic lives: Applied Behavior Analysis. The book critically examines how behaviorism became dominant, how autistic voices have been marginalized, and why ethical concerns continue to be dismissed.

I am raising funds to publish this book independently, without institutional pressure to soften its critique. Your support helps ensure this work exists in a professional, accessible, and durable form: accountable to autistic people, not systems.