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Autism Speaker and Self-Advocate
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Bio
Martijn (rhymes with 'design') Dekker is a 44-year-old father of three who divides his life between the Netherlands and the UK. He was diagnosed autistic in 1995 at age 21. Between 1996 and 2012-ish, he ran the first entirely self-hosted online autistic community on the
internet: InLv (Independent Living on the Autistic Spectrum), where the notion of 'neurodiversity' was born. He is also an experienced international public speaker on autism, and is on the board of Autscape, Europe's first and largest conference organised for and by autistic people.