Autism and the Neuromajority
I am wading into murky waters with this post. I know this, but I’m going to do it anyway… I really dislike the word “neurotypical.” It’s one of those words that has always bothered me because, in my...
View ArticleA Fantasy for Parents of Newly Diagnosed Autistic Children
I wrote about some of these ideas before in the Fantasy For Autists post a couple of weeks ago. This is a follow up post, a fantasy for parents of newly diagnosed autistic children. When Emma was...
View ArticleParenting and The Depiction of Autism in the Media
We are inundated with disturbing imagery regarding autism in the media. Perhaps one of the most famous is a video Autism Speaks made. It is a video montage with a number of parents speaking of their...
View Article“You Have To See The Horror, But Not Be Defeated By It.”
Yesterday I had lunch with the inspirational and brilliant James Cone, also known as the “father” of black theology, and a professor at Union Theological Seminary. For those of you who aren’t familiar...
View ArticleAutism = A Human Rights Issue
Sometimes I read something and I am completely overwhelmed by the weight and content of the words. Yesterday I read this – written by Kate. It’s entitled Scarred. It was posted on The Thinking...
View ArticleAutCom 2012 Conference – The Best Kept Secret
The Autcom conference was a fleeting glimpse into paradise. A tiny taste of how the world could be were we accepting of each other, treated all people as equals and with respect, without prejudice,...
View ArticleWhy? I Want to Understand…
I’m one of those people who, when told to do something that doesn’t make sense or that I can’t figure out the reasoning behind the request, questions it. I don’t mean I think about it, while silently...
View ArticleWhat Does Autism and The Hubble Space Craft Have in Common?
Most of you have probably read Jim Sinclair’s famous essay Don’t Mourn For Us. If you haven’t, do. In the Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking Anthology a version of that essay comes after Julia...
View ArticleWhat We Would Have Done Differently
What We Would Have Done Differently Had We Known What We Know Now is the longer version of the above title for this post. Someone left a comment on a post I wrote about a year and a half ago … Continue...
View ArticlePathologizing Autism? Let’s Discuss.
People argue that we have to pathologize autism because if we do not, families and Autistic people cannot obtain much needed services. People say that it is one of those unfortunate things, but given...
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