Struggling For Normal
For years, we struggled to bring our daughter up to the level of her peers. It turned out she was playing on a different field entirely.
Tagged: autism
OT Contributor Podcast: Heard Tell “Changing the Autism Conversation in Culture & Politics with Eric Garcia”
The latest Heard Tell podcast features a conversation with journalist and author Eric Garcia on Autism and his book “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation”
Far Beyond Awareness: Autism and Acceptance
Awareness and acceptance: An avalanche of well-meaning words, both from those who take our side, and those who work at cross purposes to our very existence while claiming allegiance.
On Greta Thunberg and Public Discourse around ASD
There are many assumptions that are being made about how people with Aspergers may feel or think about these issues, as well as how to interact with people on the Autism spectrum.
Why The World Needs More People With ASD
The world needs more people like myself and Greta Thunberg. Though it’s not necessarily for the reasons you might think.
When You Can’t Score an Autism Diagnosis
This is part of a series I’m writing on being the parent of a child with severe multiple disabilities at Blinded Trials. A couple of months ago, a mother of a child with the...
A very cautious guess about the spike in autism
The CDC yesterday released a study showing that autism rates have spiked. 1 in 88 kids are affected. What the hell is going on? People have speculated about possible environmental cause, as the president...
Liar, Liar: Jim Carrey and the Misinformation About Vaccines and Autism
By Dan Summers Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the infectious agent responsible for diphtheria, is a nasty little germ. Known once upon a time as the “strangling angel of children,” affected patients would develop a membrane that...
From Intolerance to Tolerance to Acceptance
Freddie has made a strong argument against viewing autism as a positive thing to be celebrated. In so doing – and keeping in mind that he is our resident liberal – Freddie argues that...
