Jaime Heidel interviews an educator about a different approach to learning that can advantage neurodivergent learners. The student-centered classroom puts learning in context.
If you’re frequently at odds with the autistic person in your life, this communication difference may be why… And here’s how to overcome it.
Autism is not behavioral, and if we ever going to make progress, we need to see autistic more like a language than a set of behaviors.
Autistic people have difficulty with being interrupted, and this is often considered to be rigidity or related to emotion regulation. The truth is complicated.
Why do autistic and non-autistic people misunderstand each other so often? Because our brains are wired differently, and the way we interact with each other
Yes, it’s hard to raise an autistic child when you’re neurotypical, but this will make it easier.
Being told that autistic neurological reactions are dramatic and overblown is an often-unintentional but very real cause of complex trauma.
You’ve heard neurotypical parents talk about raising autistic children, but what about the other way around? An autistic man explains the unique challenges of raising his neurotypical son.
I had absolutely no idea how much I hated myself (or even what internalized ableism was) until I was in my mid-thirties and had a complete nervous breakdown.
I’ve been doing a video series on YouTube for the past six months called, “Why Autistic People Do That”, and it has been one of
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