Jim Sinclair
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Jim Sinclair is an autism rights activist who is the coordinator of Autism Network International. Jim Sinclair has written an essay titled "Don't Mourn for Us" which has been widely distributed over the Internet. This essay has made Jim Sinclair well known for having the anti-cure perspective in autism. Jim Sinclair is an autistic person[1] who did not speak until age 12[2].
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[edit] References
- ^ http://web.syr.edu/%7Ejisincla/person_first.htm Accessed 4 March 2007
- ^ ^ Harmon, Amy. "How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading", New York Times, 20 December 2004.
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| NAME | Sinclair, Jim |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | autism rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lamesa, Texas |
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