
Parenting the Autism Spectrum: A Love Song
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

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.