For this year’s World Autism Acceptance Day, I made these fifty pictures and shared them to Autistic Not Weird’s Facebook page [all links open in new tabs]. For those who don’t already follow it, or…
Ever since adolescence, I’ve wanted to spend my life building people. Whether in terms of confidence, intellect, life skills, or all the other ways a person can be built up, I’ve wanted to be the kind…
So many autistic people love creative writing. Here’s my advice to them from experience.
They are not “awareness”. They are abuse, and this is why.
Perfectionism has a reputation for being a positive trait, but it’s often problematic.
A brief look at the ugly history of autism “awareness” and its ongoing impact.
It’s not about what you prefer. It’s about what we prefer.
The two questions above are among the most commonly asked by parents of newly-diagnosed autistic children. And wouldn’t it be great if there were a one-sentence answer to it? Sadly, it doesn’t work…
I would love to go to the younger version of me and slap him in the face with this article.
Because if we’re going to talk about the negative sides of autism, let’s try not to be problematic about it.
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