State of Dis-Union: The NeuroDiversity Movement At A Crossroads And Why It Should Matter To Everyone
I’m a recently-diagnosed autistic man, and in the years since I wrote the article, Autistic Uprising: a Neurodivergent Rebellion of Hearts and Minds, I’ve invested my organization deeply in the service of engaging, equipping, and encouraging autistic…
An Unwanted Hill to Climb: The Challenges Autistic Adults Face in Social and Occupational Settings
As the parent of three diagnosed autistic persons, and as the founder of Life Guides for Autistics | NeuroGuides, I’ve devoted untold numbers of hours to serving autistic persons and documented around three thousand hours of direct one-on-one coachin…
In Our Autistic Eyes
For me, the thing which lingers most in my mind, my memories, is the look in their eyes.
How can I describe to you what it is their eyes have told me? Eyes which have told me stories of buried pain, deeply blurred aches of long years of being relentle…
In Pursuit of Understanding True Neurodiversity in Our Culture: Called to a Higher Country
As an ambassador of the Neurodiversity movement, I recently took a brief pause to step back and take measure of the landscape of change occurring around the pursuit of neurodiversity understanding in the culture.
In the past two years, since launching…
The Autistic Time Traveller
Aubrey felt the cool mist of the early fall breeze cross her neck. She’d bundled up before leaving her small apartment, taking the stairs down and out into the late morning of the city. With the wet sidewalk greeting her feet, she stopped for a small …
The Accidental Autistic
My first memory was holding the hand of my Grandmother Catherine at a train station in Chicago. The warmth of her hand stood in contrast with the chilly, rainy day. I remember the crunch of the rocks under my shoes as we stood together beside the tra…
