[Part 4 of a six-part series presenting my talk on autism delivered at the Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness conference at the University of North Carolina earlier this year. To read the other parts in the series, please see the links at the bottom of this post; the series starts with Part 1 here. Thank you!…
My son Nicholas is 13, and he juggles balls and rings. Sometimes we talk about him becoming an entertainer or even joining the circus when he gets older. (The younger brother of one of his good friends recently got a unicycle. I’m dreading the likely outcome here.) But when Nicholas was younger he was even…
ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Disorder. Disorder means something’s wrong. So something is wrong with you if ASD is a part of who you are. There’s something to fix — essentially a disease that needs to be cured. And that’s just the language some major autism organizations use: let’s find a cure.* The irony…
