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Sunday with My Son

These weekend wintry early mornings in which at times I’m feeling a little drawn—hardly inclined to roll out of bed, … More

autism, fatherhood, forest, neurodiversity, parenting, pisgah forest, pisgah national forest, waterfall, woods

Hammer and Screw: Autism Acceptance and Rejection

I opened my talk at the 2019 HANd Autism & Neurodiversity Conference, themed as “My Autism Journey—Various Perspectives,” in this way, … More

autism, autism acceptance, inclusion, neurodiversity
Nicholas Hemachandra, young and old

“Poppa, Do You Have Autism?”

I told this story in my keynote address at the HANd Autism & Neurodiversity Conference in fall 2019 at Appalachian … More

autism, autism acceptance, autism parenting, neurodiversity

My Talk at the 2019 Disability Day of Mourning

    I was invited again this year to give a short talk as part of the Disability Day of … More

autism, autism acceptance, day of mourning, disability, disability day of mourning, neurodiversity
Nicholas Hemachandra

Republicans Have Autistic Children, Too

I think we widely recognize the silos of information and perspective we now live in, as a society and as … More

autism, autism acceptance, autism advocacy, autism awareness, neurodiversity

Podcast Interview of Ray Hemachandra on Converge Autism Radio

Earlier this week I recorded a podcast with Melanie Vann for Springbrook’s Converge Autism Radio. It posted today. The podcast … More

ASD, autism, autism acceptance, autism adulthood, autism blogs, autism parenting, autism podcast, autistic children, neurodiversity, parenting, podcast

What’s Most Important

We’re in Charlotte waiting for my son Nicholas’ Remicade infusion right now.  We both got up early this morning and … More

autism, autism acceptance, autism blogs, kindness, neurodiversity

Valuing Disabled Lives—and Remembering Lives Lost

The Day of Mourning, an event remembering and honoring disabled people murdered by family members or caregivers, is held on March … More

acceptance, autism, autism acceptance, autism advocacy, day of mourning, disability, neurodiversity
Nicholas Hemachandra

Definition as Destiny: Breaking Autistic Boundaries

We define autism, clinically and socially. It’s a construct, clustering people with certain human characteristics together. Here’s what autism is. … More

autism, autism acceptance, autism blog, autism blogs, autism parenting, neurodiversity, parenting

Backward, Forward, One, Two, Three

One One of the best experiences of my life was four decades ago at summer camp, Camp Killooleet, in Hancock, … More

50, acceptance, autism, autism acceptance, bullying, midlife, neurodiversity

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Finished something I was having trouble finishing and fairly unreasonably rewarded myself with lunch (blackened catfish + sides) at Homegrown in north Asheville NC and a stop at the Botanical Gardens, spare in February but still rewarding. Plus made a friend there—an AAPI Buddhist queer social-justice activist from Seattle visiting Asheville for their first time, and we had a very interesting and totally unexpected conversation.
Little break today…
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Beef Soup—Sopa de Res—at Pupuseria Patty in Asheville today.
Downtown today at Buncombe County NC’s offices in Asheville for a Strategic Partnership Grants Committee meeting. This program provides funding of nearly $1 million annually for nonprofit projects in the county. I feel fortunate to do this work.
Salmon roll today at Umi in Hendersonville, North Carolina
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