When you’re a neurodivergent teen, it becomes harder to accept that the way things are is the way things are supposed to be. You don’t have to accept lies.
Autistamatic explores the difference between being an autistic person and an autistic advocate and what responsibilities are associated with assuming the title of “advocate.”
Being unpredictable, inconsistent, and uncommunicative can cause a child a lifetime of writing about managing the unpredictable emotions of everyone around them. Here’s how to avoid that for children in your charge.
Advocacy is very hard, and dealing with the intricate nuances and communication differences in autistic advocacy can make it even more difficult to navigate.
However, an unforeseen side effect of the IDEA’s deficit-oriented focus upon disability has created a dilemma for parents of autistic children and has fostered a problem-oriented societal approach to autistic people in general.
It doesn’t speak to me about grit or determination or courage or tenacity either, though for some it might. For me it speaks about the importance of understanding that success consists of living, sometimes for excessively tedious amounts of time in a predominant state of failure.
Jaime Heidel interviews an educator about a different approach to learning that can advantage neurodivergent learners. The student-centered classroom puts learning in context.
The rift between autistic advocates and parents of autistics can be contentious. A look at this divide and why it persists with an accompanying video.
Evidence-based:
– It is a term that in psychology is often used to designate a therapy as being of a different orientation than traditional psychotherapy, without necessarily having scientific studies that show its long-term benefits or the perception of well-being on the part of the client and the recipient of the therapy.
The lessons that autistic children learn on the playground are often different from the ones their peers pick up.