In Our Autistic Eyes
2019-08-18
For me, the thing which lingers most in my mind, my memories, is the look in their eyes.
How can I describe to you what it is their eyes have told me? Eyes which have told me stories of buried pain,
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In Pursuit of Understanding True Neurodiversity in Our Culture: Called to a Higher Country
2019-06-05
It is living in awareness of our own cultural immaturity where we begin the walk into the not-yet landscape of neurodiversity understanding.
The Autistic Time Traveller
2019-06-02
Aubrey felt the cool mist of the early fall breeze cross her neck. She’d bundled up before leaving her small apartment, taking the stairs down and out into the late morning of the city. With the wet sidewalk greeting her
The Accidental Autistic
2019-05-25
World-renowned neurotypical advocate to autistic persons, J David Hall, realizes that he himself is autistic and chronicles unpacking that truth.
Autistic Uprising: a Neurodivergent Rebellion of Hearts and Minds
2019-05-23
The Neurodiversity Movement is a mutiny, and it's unapologetic, alive, and kinetic. No more can the autism-as-wretched-waif paradigm survive the cultural landscape of Neurodiversity.
Building Bridges to Nowhere: On Workplace Best Practices for Keeping Autistic Persons Terminally Jobless
2019-05-15
The bitter irony of his dressing in black was not lost on me. He smiled a hopeful smile, before walking into the “job interview practice” hosted by a local Autism Organization.
As I watched him go, I felt a wave of deep frustration, suppressed my
Mental Health Carnage: the Relentless Misunderstanding of Autistic Persons
2019-05-07
The chilled air in the place seemed filled with unease. Clean, sterile, with “handlers” at every carefully-monitored corner of the place. Doors locking in neat rhythm as any cries of the patients behind them went unheard by the visitors.
The
Chasing Coffins: Answering the Call to Stand in the Gap for Autistic Persons
2019-05-05
Autistic people are dying at exponentially-higher rates than neurotypical people, and this tragedy is preventable.
Closing Our Autism Awareness Mouths
2019-05-01
The month of April is now over, and with it an overstuffed ensemble of competing colors, puzzle pieces, symbols, fundraisers for bloated organizations supposedly serving the suffering masses, those persons supposedly reeling from the condition of autism.
Like the aftermath
Watch Christa Holmans (Neurodivergent Rebel) & J. David Hall: A Community Conversation on Neurodiversity
2019-04-26
Neurodivergent Rebel Christa Holmans and J. David Hall conference about creating accepting and accommodating culture for autistics in schools and workplaces.