The idea of the memorial is to gather profiles of people who died because of prejudice against autistic people. There are other sites which do the same thing, mostly with lists of names; I’ve used the information I can find to gather the names from multiple sources, create individual memorial pages for each person, and cite references.

Site is here (trigger warning for abuse, institutions, ablist/racist/homophobic prejudice).
http://autism-memorial.livejournal.com/

Right now I have 127 profiles, and I’m learning how to do better research so that I can get a more complete picture of the problem. My main blog (http://chaoticidealism.livejournal.com/) gets some traffic, but I know yours gets a lot more, and I am very frustrated with how little attention these cases get. I deliberately don’t name the murderers; they get enough publicity as it is, often much more than their victims. Especially for deaths in institutions, sometimes the only evidence I can find that the person even existed is a years-old news article with very little detail. I think that’s unfair. I think people deserve to be remembered.

I don’t know what your policy is on linking to somebody else’s site. I know some people avoid it because it’s hard to predict what somebody else will say, and other people will assume you endorse it. However, if it is something you’d like to do, I’d appreciate it. I’m going to keep the memorial mostly non-political, focusing on the people who died, trying to keep them from being forgotten. Sometimes I’ll comment on a case, but I’ll do that mostly on my main blog.

If you do post it, attach trigger warnings, just in case. The memorials do talk about how these individuals died, and I do not want people to get flashbacks on my account.

Sorry about commenting on your blog post instead of e-mailing you. I didn’t have an e-mail. So I guess you can just delete this once you’ve read it and decided one way or the other.

Lisa Daxer