[Part 4 of a six-part series presenting my talk on autism delivered at the Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness … More
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Support or Save: Part 3 of a Talk on Autism
[I open this post, the third in a six-part blog series presenting a talk I gave at the Autism and … More
Grieve or Live: Part 2 of a Talk on Autism
[This six-part series is adapted from a talk I gave at the Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness Conference at … More
Accept or Reject: Part 1 of a Talk on Autism
[This six-part series is adapted from a talk I gave at the Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness Conference at … More
Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness
I’m very pleased to be presenting at the second annual Autism and the Pursuit of Happiness conference on Saturday, February … More
Truth and Compass: Universality and Difference Inside and Outside of Autism
There’s this meme among some autism and special-needs parents and groups, shared on social-media graphics and bumper stickers, in fundraising … More
Autism 101: Hating Your Autistic Child
Full title and full disclosure: Autism 101: hating your autistic child … and teaching her or him self-loathing. Twice in … More
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 — … More
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, … More
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 … More