When Greta Thunberg began to take the stage as an autistic climate change activist, the world took notice. My reaction was one of powerful pride, not just as an autistic adult, but as a former autistic girl. Here was an articulate, passionate, brilliant girl unfocused on fame and fashion, who wasn’t going to let the weight of the NT world crush her or keep her from speaking out!
Be yourself… What does that mean? How do you know when you are not yourself? What are the steps you can take to be yourself?
Autism is misunderstood, as is pica. It takes a long time for some of it to be diagnosed, in my case forty-eight years for autism.
Resident diva and listmaker extraordinaire Patrick Magpie, unsure in all of his inherent awkwardness, asked some friends about how to approach a crush.
Gee didn’t know she was transgender for most of her life. Here are the signs she missed.
Using Marx’s theory of alienation of disenfranchised people, Brunel explores how autistics are alienated and their value assessed as financial commodities.
A non-speaking autistic teen relates how he uses a communication facilitator to express himself in written word.
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.
Don’t Tell Me Life’s too hard I’ve come this far To go nowhere Why the blank stare? Don’t tell me you’ve been there. I don’t
On why self-diagnosis is valid and how to accept yourself as belonging to the autistic community (Part 2 of 2).