- Jim Sinclair
Jim Sinclair is an autism rights activist who, together with fellow autistics, Kathy Lissner Grant and Donna Williams, formed
Autism Network International in 1992. Being the only one of the three with an internet connection, Sinclair became the original coordinator of ANI. Sinclair did not speak until age 12.cite news |last=Harmon |first=Amy |title=How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading |date=December 20 ,2004 |publisher=New York Times | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/health/20autism.html |accessdate=2007-11-07]Sinclair wrote "Don't Mourn for Us", as essay with an anti-cure perspective on
autism ,cite web |url=http://www.edmonds-institute.org/dontmour.html |title=Don't mourn for us |publisher=The Edmonds Institute |author= Sinclair, Jim |date= 1993 | accessdate= 2007-11-07] . "Don't Mourn for Us" serves as a touchstone for a fledgling movement. This essay has been mentioned in theNew York Times andNew York Magazine cite news |last=Solomon |first=Andrew |title=The Autism Rights Movement |date=2008-05-25 | publisher=New York Magazine | url=http://nymag.com/news/features/47225/ |accessdate=2008-06-28] Sinclair was featured in the book "Somebody Somewhere " by Donna Williams, which covers the formation of ANI.In the mid-1990s autism conferences rarely featured autistic public speakers and even more rarely paid them for their work; Sinclair was among the first international public advocates in the autism field.
Sinclair is a self-described intersexual who was born biologically intersexed and raised as a girl, but now self-identifies as "openly and proudly neuter, both physically and socially". [Sinclair, Jim (1997). [http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America.] Jim Sinclair's personal website. Retrieved on
2007-12-02 ]References
External links
* [http://www.ani.ac Autism Network International]
* [http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/index.html#terminology Jim Sinclair's personal web site]Persondata
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DATE OF BIRTH=October 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH=Lamesa, Texas
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