ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Disorder. Disorder means something’s wrong. So something is wrong with you if ASD is…
Marianne Williamson on politics, tikkun olam, and the Jewish mind
Marianne Williamson is running for Congress — running as an independent for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 33rd…
Roads Not Taken: Lessons in Autism, Inclusion, and Life
Most of us tend to interpret the world in ways that validate the choices we’ve made and confirm our rightness.…
Sister Chan Khong on Interbeing, Service, and Our Little Wars
In September I drove to Magnolia Grove Monastery in Batesville, Mississippi, to spend a day at a retreat with Thich…
Little big thought
I aspire to be the person my child knows me to be.
Huh? What?
Many people with autism, including my son Nicholas, struggle with verbal communication and clarity of shared social meaning. But most…
Sister Chan Khong on Wanting to Be Beautiful
“I think that it is the nature of everyone to want to be beautiful. Everyone tries to be beautiful, even…
What we know.
My son, Nicholas, is 13 and has autism. He often understands things people don’t think he understands and doesn’t understand…
Margaret Atwood on story
“There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told.…
Marianne Williamson on War in Modern Times
Ray Hemachandra: Marianne, are there times when moral imperatives call for war? Must certain evils — evils that peace may…
