# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-baggs
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:35.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-baggs"
name: "Mel Baggs"
slug: "mel-baggs"
description: "Mel Baggs was an American non-binary writer and disability rights advocate with a focus on developmental disability self-advocacy. They were most well-known for their blog posts and YouTube videos about autism, although they wrote about a variety of disability experiences and disliked being thought of as an \"autism blog[ger]\". Baggs described themselves as \"cognitively disabled, physically disabled, chronically ill, developmentally disabled, and psychiatrically disabled\". As an adult, they did not speak and used a communication device."
tagline: "American blogger (1980–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Amanda_Baggs.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "YouTubers"
  slug: "youtubers"
profileType:
  name: "YouTuber"
  slug: "youtuber"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15222076"
birthDate: "1980-08-15"
deathDate: "2020-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.69
  momentum:             0.08547008547008547
  historical:           7.252704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvD6JM03QizmoyK5BCCkklg"
    handle:    "UCvD6JM03QizmoyK5BCCkklg"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Baggs"
    title: "Mel Baggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Baggs"
    title: "Amelia Baggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Baggs"
    title: "Mel Baggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Baggs"
    title: "Amelia Baggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%A8%DA%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "آماندا بگز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Baggs"
    title: "Amanda Baggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A9%9C_%EB%B0%B1%EC%A6%88"
    title: "멜 백즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B3%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Беггс, Аманда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4080459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump