Autism Stories

"In trying to recover from autistic burnout myself, I created this five-phase framework that uses an intersectional lens because as I was saying earlier, autism shows up for me quite differently than ...

11 Aug 202525min

"Any clinician who is diagnosing needs to understand the value of the diagnosis. So despite the fact that, yes, we can give you a diagnosis with lots of stigma placed upon you, [...] there's a value t...

4 Aug 202525min

"The main thing I would say people definitely need when it comes to dealing with autistic swimmers is just patience. Like there's going to be some days where the kids are going to have like a really g...

28 Jul 202512min

"Art therapy really is about working with materials to be able to come to know something about yourself that emerges through that engagement and may or may not be communicated verbally at all", says F...

21 Jul 202530min

"Cannabis was a very confusing aspect of my life for a really long time because in high school I was trying it, but my family was very against it. There were actually aspects of it that seemed to be h...

14 Jul 202519min

"What grief really is, isn't a getting over the loss, but an adjusting to a life that encapsulates the loss. And I think that that's a lot of what sometimes happens when we come to terms with our auti...

7 Jul 202527min

"Many people] don't care as much about, okay, these are the statistics of what percentage of people get deported actually commited any crimes. It's very, very low. [...] They care about their neighbor...

30 Jun 202520min

"Anytime you have a default, anyone whose brain learns things, processes, communicates differently is going to feel othered. The idea with universal design is not having any defaults, and to have a me...

23 Jun 202534min