Have you ever had that dream?
You know the one:
You have a job to do, but you're not quite sure what it is.
Or how to do it.
Or why it's important.
Or what to do it with.
Or where.
But you know it's important.
And everyone's angry.
And it's your fault it hasn't been done.

Have you ever had that dream?
You know the one:
Someone's telling you something really ( Read more... )

(Self-)Advocacy is hard, because it doesn't feel, most of the time, like a disability ( Read more... )

I did a talk, and the second time I gave this talk, it was recorded. (Well, most of it. The last couple of minutes of Q&A were dropped because the first five minutes was spent swearing over getting the slides working. But that first five minutes has been cut, so it's straight into the talk.)

It's called Autism 101, and seems to have been well ( Read more... )

Words cut.

There was a time when I used those words, because I was ignorant. And because everyone around me used them, and I thought that that’s just what you did.

Retard.

They were words we used at them. I mean, we didn’t know any, but we knew about them. They were the insults we threw around the schoolyard at each other. That kid who annoyed ( Read more... )

On Autism and the sensation of Time.

November 1 keeps catching me by surprise. Every year. Every Autistics Speaking day.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have an accurate sense of time: to remember an event and Just Know how long ago it was, to see an event in the calendar and Just Know how long I have to wait. But I don't. I have five ( Read more... )

What is the difference between a cage and a sanctuary?

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Well. Who knew there were so many of us.

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