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 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…
Autistic Uprising: a Neurodivergent Rebellion of Hearts and Minds
Editor’s note: When J David Hall first wrote this, he didn’t yet know he was autistic… but when we read this, autistics did. First featured on Medium, this article made waves. We are glad that David has found a home at NeuroClastic and that we can …
Building Bridges to Nowhere: On Workplace Best Practices for Keeping Autistic Persons Terminally Jobless
The bitter irony of his dressing in black was not lost on me. He smiled a hopeful smile, before walking into the “job interview practice” hosted by a local Autism Organization.
As I watched him go, I felt a wave of deep frustration, suppressed m…
Mental Health Carnage: the Relentless Misunderstanding of Autistic Persons
The chilled air in the place seemed filled with unease. Clean, sterile, with “handlers” at every carefully-monitored corner of the place. Doors locking in neat rhythm as any cries of the patients behind them went unheard by the visitors.
The D…
Closing Our Autism Awareness Mouths
The month of April is now over, and with it an overstuffed ensemble of competing colors, puzzle pieces, symbols, fundraisers for bloated organizations supposedly serving the suffering masses, those persons supposedly reeling from the condition of autism. Like the aftermath of some human-stoked windstorm of desperation for being aware of the plight of millions of […]
