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Autistic Adulthood

November 13, 2012

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…

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Challenging the Usual Concept of Independence

November 12, 2012

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…

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Homeschooling Autistic Children: Structured But Flexible

November 12, 2012

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…

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Choosing a Strong Password

November 12, 2012

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…

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News from the North

November 12, 2012

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…

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From the Board Room

November 12, 2012

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…

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Autistics Speaking Day 2012: Two Years Since it all Began

November 1, 2012

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…

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Functioning Labels, Again

October 11, 2012

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…

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Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum Conference

September 4, 2012

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…

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Researchers will Investigate the Poorly Understood Nature of ASD in Females

September 4, 2012

“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…

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It’s Not Hate

September 3, 2012

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…

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Autism: Girls vs Boys

August 9, 2012

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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