Sienna is a young Autistic adult writing to Autistic teens. In this beautiful letter, Sienna encourages teens to understand and embrace themselves unapologetically….
Dear multiracial autistic teens, Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Is belonging something you’ve tasted but never drank fully. Did you have it when you were very little,…
Wolfheart Sanchez is Black and Native American, and he writes a letter to Autistic teens about how the lack of representation is harmful, but they can build the community they…
Jude Olubodun pens a powerful letter to autistic teens validating that they deserve respect, boundaries, bodily autonomy, and love in a society that is inherently harmful for those who are…
…in the article below, written by two teens. https://neuroclastic.com/selective-mutism-just-because-somebody-cant-speak-doesnt-mean-they-dont-have-a-voice/ Nonspeaking, Minimally Speaking, and Unreliably Speaking As many as one-third of autistic people are nonspeaking, usually because of a motor-planning condition…
…on April 29th, first responders from Kalamazoo, Michigan, arrived at Lakeside Academy, a boarding school for teens with a history of anti-social behaviors, to find 16-year-old Cornelius Frederick lying dead…
…this has is of amplifying those emotions. Anger becomes fury. Happiness becomes euphoria. You get the gist. This means that Aspie teens go through some extremes of emotion that most…
…family. One teen, Gavin Joseph (right; before), was sitting alone at an event when some teens from his high school lured him away from the crowds. He was shielded from…
Ashna and William are nonspeaking teens here to offer their perspective on stims. Although they wrote their blogs separately, a common theme emerges: everyone stims. Maybe it’s time to adjust…
…important in the child/teen’s life to love them unconditionally. Do that by avoiding methods of addressing behavioral concerns that involve rewards and consequences – because these methods tell kids that…
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