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.
Cathryn Salladin
November 28, 2023
The Blog
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”
Peter McCollum
September 14, 2023
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?
Michael John Carley
May 3, 2023
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.”
Michael John Carley
March 8, 2023
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.
Michael John Carley
December 21, 2021
Autism Without Fear: The Last Time I Panicked
Today, fewer people seem to want to use the word, “coward.” We know so much more about why our emotions can cause us to freeze, to run away, to fail to come to the aid of a loved one, to desert, or to lie. And while explanation is still not justification, our increased knowledge of executive functioning, emotional regulation, and the long-term damage lurking within all negative reinforcements…has granted us infinitely more humane clarification about why “cowardice” occurs.
Michael John Carley
November 14, 2021
What I’d Like to See Change in (and for) the Disability Community in the Next 50 Years
Occurring all across western culture is a deep reckoning with the historic treatment of people of African descent. People with disabilities/disabled people need to cheer, support, and also take notes. For when I mentioned “society’s insecure demand to be able to ‘exclude,’” I may not have been as overreactive as you thought.
Michael John Carley
September 22, 2021
