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Autistic People Should…
Autistic people should be heard because we are the ones with the most valuable information about autism. We live it everyday. Autistic people should be respected because respect is the foundation for all human interaction.…
Read More →Intersections Like Me
Rest at pale evening… A tall slim tree… Night coming tenderly Black like me. ~by Langston Hughes The year I was born, John Howard Griffin, a journalist and civil rights movement ally, published a…
Read More →Autism Acceptance – Leading the Conversation
I want to talk about Autism Acceptance again. I want to talk about Autism Acceptance because soon we will be, again, referred to as tragedies, burdens, afflictions. This will go on, more than usual, for…
Read More →The Gift of Self-Knowledge
I was an autism mom before I was autistic. I mean, obviously that can’t actually be true, because I’ve been autistic my whole life, but I came into the autism community as a parent years…
Read More →Autism in 2012: What We Have Done
I have written about my year in autism self-advocacy. I have a lot to celebrate and a lot to be thankful for. I think 2012 was a year of great accomplishments for our community, despite moments of…
Read More →AWN’s Appeal to Media Sources Covering Newtown, CT
With the tragic events unfolding regarding the recent school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, we here at Autism Women’s Network send our heartfelt condolences to all the families. It is unimaginable what they are going…
Read More →Autistic People Spoke
Autistic people spoke. At least two of them did. They spoke on our behalf, eloquently and without drama or hyperbole. Michael John Carley and Ari Ne’eman spoke about, to and for us, autistics. Not only…
Read More →Autistic Advocates to Testify at Congressional Hearing
Many of you have contacted Autism Women’s Network with concerns that autistic women were not invited to testify before the Nov. 29, 2012 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to speak in behalf of…
Read More →The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
“Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we’d had when autism first became part of our lives: a one-stop source for carefully curated, evidence-based information from autism parents, autistics, and autism…
Read More →Safety Skills for Asperger Women: How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life
The really tough parts of Asperger syndrome are obviously the most difficult to talk about, but if we don’t… if we pretend life with AS is all jolly and cheer-filled, then we set ourselves up…
Read More →We’ve Been Here All Along
Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg beautifully captures a compilation of messages which beckons understanding and acceptance of autistic people who have always been here, woven within the fabrics of society. This anthology is a collection of poems and…
Read More →Non-Speaking (at times) Autistic Makes Video
Recently I made a video about not being able to talk at times. I made the video when I was completely unable to talk. The reason for making the video was to show people, by…
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