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Thread for parents of autistic kids:I answer parents' questions on facebook commonly, and a lot of them are the same.Here are the most common questions I see from parents, answered

So this podcast (transcript available) is really, really interesting.She talks about stress, the pandemic, and the fact that brains get tired.Autistic burnout makes a lot of sense when you think

I wish non-autistic people understood that when I am stressed, to them my voice sounds "defensive" or "aggressive," when what I really am is absurdly anxious, stressed out, and out

Why the "you're just one autistic person" rebuttal is not ever made in good faith: When an autistic person speaks up to a non-autistic person and tells them they're being

Here's what no one tells you when you grow up in an "academic" household with close and extended family members who have PhDs, are doctors/researchers/lawyers:The default assumption is that if

Right when this trailer came out, in terms of not casting a disabled actor, it reminded me a lot of the movie Wonder and how I felt when that child

I am the Chair of the Board of @NeuroClastic I don't mention it a lot because I find that if I mention the association, my posts are less likely to

Helping with accessibility and disability activism is a lot like academia. People say that the more you learn, the less you think you know.Well, the more that you do within

Autistic people grow up being told that they have to lie. I often found people explaining NT social skills to me as lying. I would often say people "lied" when

"You need to rethink what image you have of your students, and what image you have of professional behavior. A lot of the qualities that we claim to foster are

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