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 Asheville area. Mission asked Family Support Network of Western North Carolina to write a piece for Autism Awareness Month, and FSN in turn asked me to pen it. (I’m chair of FSN’s Advisory Committee, as…

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 and acceptance need first and foremost to be engaged is within the autism community. Does the autism community — people on the spectrum themselves, families, autism organizations — accept autism? If not, why would anyone…