Image
Megan McLaughlin
In What Today Withholds: Autism and Human Rights in America, Megan McLaughlin takes us on a harrowing journey through the institutions that neglect, reject, demean, punish, torture, and even kill autistic people in the United States. Her book reveals autistics' appallingly short life expectancy, the discrimination they face as they go about their everyday lives, and the needless cruelties they endure from early childhood on. What lies behind these abuses? McLaughlin argues that it is our society's continuing refusal to accept autistics as fully human.