It’s the parochial archetype. Crisp white linens absorb the gentle breeze and filtered sunshine as they flutter lazily from a clothesline, the starkness a deep
No, we don’t take everything literally.
In prevailing literature, people on the autism spectrum have all of their traits, their behaviors, and even their very existence pathologized. They are considered to
For people on the spectrum, how well someone fares in the general public or on the job often depends on someone’s ability to hide his
One of the dominant characterizations of people on the autism spectrum is that they lack empathy or are empathy-disrupted. This is based on the paradigm
How does one make it into adulthood without knowing they are autistic? Or that an autistic community even exists? What if that person is an expert on autism?
It was hard to come out as an aspie (a person with Asperger’s syndrome). I started with some people I thought would be the most
For someone on the spectrum, navigating relationships with neurotypical (non-autistic) people is the social equivalent of assembling an Ikea shelf with missing parts and directions
They’re out there, in the brushstrokes of the original, museum-quality painting hanging in your favorite hole-in-the-wall pub, or the Louvre, or the kaleidoscopic mural painted
Function labels are used to describe how well a person can do daily activities and appear normal. They’re degrading and misleading.