The Blog
Autism in Cuba
“Context,” the word, is not at risk of vanishing just yet, but “context,” the concept, could soon go the way of “critical thinking,” or “racism,” wherein parties that seemingly know little about these terms have the power, through the act of thoughtless appropriation, to destroy their impact.
I’ll Always Be a Sea Creature
An autistic former US National Swim Team member describes her harrowing journey towards finally discovering the right diagnosis.
An American Autistic Living in Thailand Writes on “Why Gardening May Have Saved My Life”
An American Autistic Living in Thailand Writes on “Why Gardening May Have Saved My Life”
Autism Without Fear: Is It Time to Stop Funding Biologically- or Genetically-Based Autism Research?
Think about it…Over the last twenty years, exactly what has biological autism research given the average working or middle-class American family with a child with autism?
Autism Around the World: A First Lady with a Degree in Special Education, and “Autism Belize.”
She doesn’t flinch. “We need money! We need a lot of training and it costs a lot of money…We’re not lost. We’re not this little country that has our heads in the sand.”
Letter of Resignation from the Board of Directors of NEXT for Autism
Almost a year ago I resigned from the Board of Directors of NEXT for Autism (the benefactors of HBO’s celebrity-filled “Night of Too Many Stars”). And it was an especially disappointing divorce under circumstances tied to my being the only autistic Board member they’d had in the years I was with them. Well, the wrong hands appear to have gotten hold of the long-ish resignation letter that outlined my concerns with NEXT for Autism. In an effort to get ahead of the situation, control the narrative myself, and prevent any misinterpretation about how I intended to leave, I’ve leaked the document before do the rather unhappy folks who got their hands on my document.