I’m in Ur Toastmasters Meeting, Giving U Speeches
by Andee Joyce Here’s how I celebrated Autism Acceptance Month: I gave my debut speech in Toastmasters about me and my neuro-orientation, to a roomful of nonautistic folks. And they dug it. Or at...
View ArticleAsperger’s Means That
by Dylan Matthews I write about politics and public policy for a living. To do that well, you have to have a fair amount of background knowledge, of everything from how Congressional committees work,...
View ArticleFrom One Ally to the Education Community: A New View of Students with Autism
Cheryl M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., Inclusive Education Consultant Affiliate Faculty, Department of Education, University of New Hampshire Note: A shorter version of this article originally appeared in the...
View ArticleWelcome to the Rest of International Autism Acceptance Year!
by Paula Durbin-Westby Time marches on! Welcome to the rest of International Autism Acceptance Year! International Autism Acceptance Year (IAAY) is a continuation of the remarkable success of Autism...
View ArticleThe Acceptance Letter
Dear Mumu, One day, in case you ever feel like knowing more about how you light up our world, I am building a digital hope chest of words for you to read or hear. People say it doesn’t matter what I...
View ArticleWe need to listen
by Liz Pellicano When I was a young academic at Oxford University, I was lucky enough to work with several autistic students, helping them to negotiate the complexities of that ancient institution...
View ArticleAutism, Being Autistic and Acceptance
by Amy Sequenzia What is our place in the world? Who are we? Those questions should be easy to answer. Yet, they are not. For a long time, and still today, the answer to the “who are we” question was...
View ArticleA Poem
by Dora Raymaker When the numbers roll in, I see where I fall: 1 in 1,000 1 in 150 1 in 88 children America has committed to prevent from being born. When the issues come to the table, I observe where...
View ArticleYou are not a burden.
by Lydia Brown, at Autistic Hoya To the person who found my blog by searching Google for “feel like i’m a burden aspergers:” You are not a burden. You are a human being, and your life can be rich,...
View ArticleAutism: From Awareness to Understanding to Acceptance and Appreciation
by Rebecca Hamilton Over the years, we’ve made some progress where Autism Awareness is concerned. Many have seen advertisements and articles and news-clippings, they’ve heard the word, they know autism...
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