WHY I DON’T CALL AUTISM AN INVISIBLE DISABILITY
Many people call autism an “invisible disability” because, as they say, you can’t tell someone is autistic just from looking at them. I challenge that view and explain why. […]
AGGRESSION – THE WEAPONIZATION OF A FALSE LABEL TO UNDERMINE DEVELOPMENTALLY/INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE’S HUMAN RIGHTS
How and why people commonly weaponize the label “aggression” against developmentally and/or intellectually disabled people, why that’s bad, and how to stop it. […]
AUTISM AND SELF INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR
Self-injurious behavior gets discussed a lot – but it’s not often that we hear from it from a lived experience. Lets change that and break the stigma! […]
AUTISM AND RULES
Five things about rules and autistic people that can serve to creating a more autistic-friendly approach to rule-making and rule-teaching. […]
15 TIPS FOR SURVIVING THE SUMMER HEAT
Nobody ever taught me how to make the summer heat more bearable. I had to learn over years of suffering. Here are my 15 tips for surviving the summer heat, so that others don’t suffer as I did. […]
BOLTING – AUTISTIC SUDDEN FLIGHT EXPLAINED
Bolting – the sudden flight phenomenon in autistic people explained from lived experience and without harmful behaviorist approaches. […]
FOLLOW-UP REGARDING COLOR THE SPECTRUM AND NEXT FOR AUTISM
To begin this, I note that all of this happened because the people in power did the wrong thing. The right thing to do, in my personal opinion, would have been to never have considered putting out a non-autistic led autism-related event in the first place. To instead selflessly use one’s privilege, power, platform, and […]
PRESS RELEASE AND OPEN LETTER TO THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY REGARDING THE COLOR OF THE SPECTRUM EVENT AND NEXT FOR AUTISM
PRESS RELEASE OPEN LETTER TO THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY […]
THE FLOATING NOTHINGNESS. LIFE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL TOPOGRAPHICAL DISORIENTATION
What is it like when “I don’t have a sense of direction.” isn’t just a half-joking sentiment, but the disability Developmental Topographical Disorientation? […]