Full title and full disclosure: Autism 101: hating your autistic child … and teaching her or him self-loathing. Twice in…
Friendship, birthdays, and brownies
My birthday is tomorrow. This morning I was chatting on an app about it with a friend in India. It…
A Lot of Gratitude
Brita Adkinson, a Swedish woman and journalist, worked for and with me for several years at New Age Retailer, a…
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 —…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
