Autism Stories: Mark Fremmerlid

“Non-speakers with apraxia need people to believe in their intelligence and give them opportunities to show it. They need to be taught in a more engaging way. I like the back and forth teaching style ...

18 Loka 202114min

“It’s This shared special interest with my daughter. It’s so parallel play, because she does her own thing, I do my own thing, we’re not bothering each other, but we’re together. It’s the best,” says ...

11 Loka 202122min

“When I started to wrestle more regularly, I always wanted to make a point of being openly autistic because you hear a lot of autistic people in other fields, and predominantly in sciences and maybe m...

4 Loka 202119min

""I did some time at university, and everything was really structured and regimented- you have to write it this way, you need to have an outline, you need to have a thesis, you need to have your three...

27 Syys 202121min

"When we're overwhelmed, people try to talk, and have us walking and looking and lots of other things that we're trying to attend to, and that's too overwhelming, too much. It closes us down, cause th...

20 Syys 202129min

"Modeling is significant because I'm that representation I didn't really get growing up. I'm autistic, I'm queer, I'm curvy, and there weren't a lot of people like me that I got to see modeling.....be...

13 Syys 202117min

"Prior to Covid, a lot of what I've seen was schools tightening their belts, being less inclined to pay for out of district placements, even if those would be more appropriate for the student, because...

6 Syys 202114min

"Some autistic people do not need certain life skills. We need to be careful with that, we need to base it on the unique needs of the person. I call it interdependent living skills versus independent ...

30 Elo 202130min