Martijn “McDutchie” Dekker

Keywords: parent; multilingual; disabled; autistic public speaker & reluctant activist; programming; Interlingua (IALA); guitar; despairing social-liberal; ripped apart between NL & UK. #IAmEuropean

Social media (infrequent use): Mastodon (preferred), Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn

The old InLv site is available for historical purposes (warning: terrible 1990s sci-fi design; does this have retro charm yet?).

Blog

• 2023-07-13: A correction on the origin of the term ‘neurodiversity’
• 2023-06-29: Was neurodiversity really Judy Singer's idea? A little history lesson.

Autism-related publications

• Pukki, H., Bettin, J., Outlaw, A., Hennessy, J., Brook, K., Dekker, M., ... & Lammers, J. (2022). Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research. Autism in Adulthood 4(2):93-101
• Leadbitter, K., Buckle, K. L., Ellis, C., & Dekker, M. (2021). Autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement: Implications for autism early intervention research and practice. Frontiers in Psychology, 782.
• Dekker, M. (2020). From exclusion to acceptance: Independent living on the autistic spectrum. In Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement (pp. 41-49). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
• Dekker, M. (1999). On our own terms: Emerging autistic culture. Autism99 online conference.

Presentations

• The History of the Neurodiversity Concept (Autwave, 19th September 2021)
• Cure vs Acceptance of Autism (Autism-Europe International Congress, 2016 – my contribution to the panel)

Presentation slides

Click on the links to get the slides for some of the lectures I've done.

• The neurodiversity paradigm through the years
  23rd July 2021, Autscape 2021: Growing, Developing and Learning, online
• Pick a side: the dilemma of being an autistic parent
  9th August 2017, Autscape 2017: Autism in context, King's Park Conference Centre, Northampton, England
• Cure vs. acceptance [en]
  10th June 2017, "Autism Without Violence" conference, Wroclaw, Poland
• Neurodiversity in the post-factual society [en]
  2nd March 2017, ESRC Autism and Society Seminar II: Autistic Wellbeing, London, UK
• Wij mogen er zijn [nl]
  11th november 2016, Inservice Autisme 2016, Malle, België
• Autistic identity and the limits of inclusion
  18th August 2016, Autscape 2016: Identity, Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire, England
• A history of early autistic space
  22nd August 2015, Autscape 2015: Exploring Autistic Space, Giggleswick School, Settle, North Yorkshire, England
• Owning the languages of autism
  23rd August 2011, Autscape 2015: Owning Autism, Ackworth School, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England

Unix shell scripting geekery

I created and maintain the Modernish shell library which offers interesting features and greatly improves some of the main weaknesses in conventional shell scripting languages.

Since May 2020, I maintain ksh 93u+m, the only currently maintained version of the Korn shell, originally by David Korn of AT&T Research. It is a direct descendant of the original Bourne shell, so it is historically a very interesting project, and an engaging challenge to fix and modernise. On 2022-08-01, I released ksh 93u+m/1.0.0, the first stable ksh release in precisely a decade. :)

Links

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