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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 —…

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Road trip to Jersey

A few Fourth of July notes from today’s road trip to Mount Laurel, New Jersey, from our home in Arden,…

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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…

autism, belonging, egoic identification, egoic identity, identity, otherness, the human condition

Try This With a Banana: My Goodbye — in 2006

If it seems like I’ve stopped posting here — it’s been long enough that the WordPress default font for writing…

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A new video … and thoughts about online identity and legacy

A new promotional video for Family Support Network of Western North Carolina and Mission Children’s Hospital featuring my friend Roxann…

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April Is Autism Awareness Month: A Time for Developing Acceptance (an article for the Biltmore Beacon)

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

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Autism Nation: Implications for a 1-in-68 Planet

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

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Leathe Hemachandra: Poems from My Grandmother

Here’s what I think I know: My grandmother Leathe Hemachandra was born Leathe Wade Colvert in New York City on…

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Poem: Why Cats Stay in Abusive Relationships

Look up “poetry” in the dictionary, and the second definition is “the quickest way to lose blog traffic.” Similarly, Google…

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Mountain Xpress article about Family Support Network

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

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