People of Color

How safe do/did you feel growing up?

Initial results from a survey on psychological safety and mental wellbeing indicate that the biggest fears of Neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and Disabled children – and especially those who also belong to cultural minorities, relate to classmates, parents, and teachers. 97% indicate often or always having anxiety, and 80% indicate often or always feeling depressed. We are committed to gathering further data from as many geographies as possible. The data and lived experience reports will flow into our education courses for teachers, and will inform our advocacy work.

Celebrate the diversity of humankind – Embrace your weirdness

4th of March is Weird Pride Day. This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, and reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind.

Poetry: AuDHD

Emmanuel Abua considers the duality and sometimes polarizing reality of being both autistic and ADHD.

Hypermobility Pain Hacks

Many autistic people suffer with chronic joint pain due to co-occurring conditions. Here’s how one autistic woman found some relief.

Poetry: The Road. 

Anantha Krishnamurthy with another powerful poem that stands as a challenge to all that is wild and free within the soul of readers.

The Performance of April and Autism Awareness Month

April is essentially a cash grab. April is a soapbox for well-meaning organizations and corporations to bank on us. We’re the inspiration porn, the example to strive for, the burden to be eased that’s big money to them.

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