Ido Kedar's blog: dispatches from inside nonspeaking autism
Ido in Autismland is Kedar's personal site — a steady stream of essays, observations, and arguments written by a nonspeaking autistic adult who types independently.
Kedar's WSJ op-ed is the piece most people have read. The blog is where the actual work lives. He writes about education, advocacy, autism research, daily life, the limits of behavioral interventions, and the experience of being underestimated for years before gaining access to typed communication.
The posts are short, frequent, and often angry — in the specific way someone is angry when they have spent a long time being talked about rather than talked to.
Why the volume matters
A common skeptical move is to say that any individual typed message from a nonspeaking person could, in principle, have been influenced by a partner. That argument gets harder to sustain against a decade of independent posts by a single author, with a consistent voice, on topics he chooses, often arguing with people his partners would not be motivated to argue with.
It is not a controlled study. It is something the strongest skeptical position still has to explain.
What to read first
His posts on ABA, on being trapped inside a body that does not cooperate, and on the responsibility educators have to presume competence are good entry points. So are the pieces where he simply describes his day — the parts that look unremarkable until you remember the assumptions that were made about him as a child.