Daniel Bowman Jr Surprises are challenging Like most people on the spectrum, I need some structure and predictability. Surprises are challenging. Unwanted physical exchanges can be difficult. I often can’t sustain eye contact, and shouldn’t have…
Daniel Bowman Jr Plagued by that devil voice Also: I’ve spent a lot of my life in classrooms and the hallways of academia. I know the people on campus, and our contexts, intimately. I know, in general, what…
Daniel Bowman Jr We need to know where we are I sit on my porch swing on North High Street in Hartford City, Indiana, waiting out a lazy shower on the end of a storm. I’ve learned that a Midwestern…
Daniel Bowman Jr Why do I tell this story? Why do I tell this story in light of the abuse and murder of autistic children? And why do I tell it using only the barest outline of facts? Because…
Daniel Bowman Jr The Pathology Model vs. the Neurodiversity Paradigm If you aren’t sure that a pathology paradigm is so bad, I want to simply place the language of pathology side by side with the words of a neurodiversity paradigm,…
Daniel Bowman Jr Styrofoam Jesus, or, Autism and My First Communion by Daniel Bowman Jr. https://sojo.net/articles/styrofoam-jesus-or-autism-and-my-first-communion