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 people are going to do or say in most situations. There’s an appealing predictability. Interacting with the folks at Blackford County Arts – a graphic …
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 I was lost and now I’m found. Things started out hard. And things turned out mostly okay. My life as an undiagnosed autistic kid was …
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, and let you put yourself in the shoes of someone on the receiving end of each. In an October 2020 article for the ADDitude Magazine, …
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