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I recently got an email pitch from a company with a social skills product that claimed the product, “will enable [children with special needs] to be accepted by their peers throughout all aspects of their…

In Part 1 I wrote about how some parents are coming to us, autistic adults, to ask for our insight, trying to better understand their autistic children. These parents are on their journey toward autism acceptance, learning…

When I was little, diagnosed autistic, my parents were told to find a nice place to send me and go have a life because there was no hope for anything resembling happiness with someone like…

My friend once said that she was so happy we live in this era of technology and social media. What she meant is that I can type my thoughts, post them online to convey a…

I have been thinking about writing this post for a while but I always stopped myself. The main reason is that I wanted to be gentle with my words, even though it hurts to write.…

I blog regularly for two websites and anyone can find my mini biography on those sites. Until recently, my bio said “Autistic self-advocate”. I changed that to the more comprehensive “Autistic Activist”. First, I am…

“We are all equally distant from the sun, but we all have a share in it.” -Thornton Wilder  I heard this quote and the first thing that came to my mind was “neurodiversity”. The second…

Laura Nagle is an self advocate on the autistic spectrum. She has given various presentations on autism over the past five years, particularly on topics related to educating others about autism and promoting the civil…

Autism Autistic Awesome Autism is awesome. AUSOME Positive thinking Positive actions Positively Autistic. We laugh and we cry. We pause. The words and ideas We create We protest We come together We think about change.…

I’ve been trying to write about my marriage for quite a while now, but it is very difficult because there are so many complicated sinews both holding my marriage together and pushing it apart. Which…

It is my turn to talk about identity. I want to write about it because I know who I am and I am the one who decides how I identify myself. And I am Autistic.…

Like all human beings my unique personal identity is composed of many facets. I am a woman. I am a mother. I am a daughter and a wife, a Democrat, a citizen of the United…