Note the content: Suicidal thoughts are discussed in this article I do not consider myself a particularly private person by nature or care. I am an autistic who gave me, like many people in the spectrum, a set of borders that is not always in line with average neurotypical. I also grew up in a […]
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Recently, I had an amazing opportunity to sit with an artist nominee Chris Redding To discuss his journey with autism, his spokeswoman and the way he uses his platform to make changes. As someone deeply passionate about autism awareness, this conversation was both inspiring and opening eyes. In this episode Alicia Trautwein Podcast, Chris, shares
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“I’ve been black all my life, but until recently autism was all my reality. I have never paid attention to how my black made autism much more risky. And now I see it. I see this and Marcia, I can’t see it. “-Aiden, all noise at once There is not enough published books about autism
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Both teachers and society have to work in supporting people with disabilities. But how can educational policy and disability best serve disabled students, as well as support students and their families? To really understand disability, you would have to be disabled to understand the living experience of existence in a world that still embarrasses those
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If you have concerns about vaccines and autism, know that I am here to reassure you and answer your questions. I understand that you feel fear and skepticism after being told that a medical procedure may have harmed your baby. So I’m going to tell you my story about becoming – but then not becoming
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As a historian of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), I know that ProPublica missed the real story about insurance and autism therapy. The question is: how could they have got it so wrong? ProPublica covers stories neglected by other media, with a focus on corruption and conflict in corporations and government. Given this mission, ProPublica journalist
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Part of providing respectful and full support to autistic people with motor difficulties (and really anyone who experiences a physical disability) is giving people autonomy over their own bodies. Part of this is to give people the autonomy to choose which aspects of their movement or motor skills they would like to change or seek
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While browsing TikTok, I came across a video showing what it’s like to have an autistic sibling. Of course, this paints a picture of a neurotypical sibling having a harder time dealing with an autistic sibling. I’ve seen movies like this many times, always with neurotypical family members being “victims” of autism. I’d like to
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In his extremely valuable article from last year entitled Autistic cult of redemptionwriter John Summers tells how he was recruited into the world of autism pseudoscience after his then-teen-year-old son Misha was diagnosed, and how he got out of it. Reading this article highlighted to me how hard it is to climb the tightrope we
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I recently had to dismantle a metal bunk bed that my husband and I were selling to a consignment store. The frame was held together by dozens of hefty screws that had to be unscrewed with an Allen key. The screws in the rails slipped out after a few turns with minimal effort, but the
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