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Autistic Adulthood
Welcome to Autistic adulthood, my young friends. It does exist, contrary to what the media has people believing. We do grow up, and what we grow up to be are Autistic adults. And awesome, but…
Read More →Challenging the Usual Concept of Independence
Throughout my life I heard comments about how difficult everything would be for me, how I would never be independent, or have an independent life. If I could grow up to live independently, I would…
Read More →Homeschooling Autistic Children: Structured But Flexible
When I first started homeschooling my kids, I was trying to do everything by the book. It was an imaginary book that I thought up and created myself. It was full of dreams of possibly…
Read More →Choosing a Strong Password
Why you need a strong password: Hackers hack to hack. There does not need to be a personal reason to attack a site. Hackers have tools to crack passwords including: Programs that rapidly try thousands…
Read More →News from the North
Hello all!! Corina here, your Vice-President in Canada! It’s getting to be autumn here, and I thought I’d fill you in on what’s happening up here in the Great White North. Well, other than getting…
Read More →From the Board Room
Hello Everyone! With a new year fast approaching, we’re wrapping up a busy 2012 at the Autism Women’s Network. AWN Board of Directors has spent this past year going through extensive Board Training. We are…
Read More →Autistics Speaking Day 2012: Two Years Since it all Began
Has it really been two years since it all began? Yes! It seems like only yesterday when autistic self-advocates Kathryn Bjornstad-Kelly, ASANCommunications Assistant, and Corina Becker, Vice-President of Autism Women’s Network first proposed a day for people…
Read More →Functioning Labels, Again
I have written about how functioning labels are not helpful, how they help perpetuate myths and how labels don’t really tell our stories. I wrote from the perspective of someone who was labeled “low-functioning”; someone…
Read More →Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum Conference
This conference, organised by The National Autistic Society, is a response to increasing calls from parents and professionals for specific information about autism in women and girls, as well as from women with autism who feel…
Read More →Researchers will Investigate the Poorly Understood Nature of ASD in Females
“Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D. (Yale University, New Haven, Conn.)—A team of researchers from Yale, UCLA, Harvard, and the University of Washington will investigate the poorly understood nature of ASD in females. The project will study a…
Read More →It’s Not Hate
Self-advocacy is not easy. It is true that anyone can self-advocate, even through simple actions like saying “no” to another person, or refusing to follow an imposed activity. And that’s why it can be hard to…
Read More →Autism: Girls vs Boys
A recent study by The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry suggests that lower intellectual or behavioral challenges in girls is a likely contributor to their lower diagnostic rates than boys displaying autistic-like traits at the same…
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