Anti-Autism Prejudice: Media, Parents, and Damaged Children

My son, Nicholas, was featured on the cover of the major western North Carolina weekly — the Mountain Xpress — … More

Autism and the Human Condition: Ourselves and the Other, Ourselves as the Other, Ourselves and No Other

I’ve been participating in a group and a class recently that both sometimes have autistic adults present; engaging a lot … More

Mission Children’s Hospital and Mission Health have a regular column in The Biltmore Beacon, a weekly publication in the South … More

Let’s begin here: Whether April is Autism Awareness Month or Autism Acceptance Month, I think the place where autism awareness … More

Hi everyone! New real blog post coming later this week, but I wanted to link to an article about Family … More

Often I’m asked “What are you?” Racial and ethnic identity inform so much in our culture. The question asked really … More

When my son Nicholas was one and a half he lost all his speech. He couldn’t even make coherent sounds. … More

My son Nicholas is 13, and he juggles balls and rings. Sometimes we talk about him becoming an entertainer or … More

ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Disorder. Disorder means something’s wrong. So something is wrong with you if ASD is … More

Most of us tend to interpret the world in ways that validate the choices we’ve made and confirm our rightness. … More