Autism Stories

"There are a lot of autistic women that sign up for my class. So introducing them and creating this neurodiverse community in the classroom where they get to work with actual autistic women and see th...

12 Jan 202315min

"Being open about where you come from, your difference, gives an opening for others to say the rabbi is modelling this. The rabbi is showing that people of difference are members of this community and...

9 Jan 202327min

"he big issue is that colleges are mostly for very functional students that can talk right and can control their body. But for individuals like us, options are very less. For me, I feel lucky. My body...

2 Jan 202315min

"Autistic people have the ability to decompose the soundscape, to take the sound of the world around them and to focus in on particular aspects of it and to hear that detail. People don't listen in th...

26 Dec 202247min

"Many of us, if we're just provided the proper accommodations, and if we're provided the opportunities to advocate for ourselves and be taken seriously, we would thrive. We would be able to live lives...

19 Dec 202225min

“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...

12 Dec 202232min

“Currently, that is the one place where I am entirely unmasked. I don't guard myself when I'm running; it's true self expression. It's the only place I'm really fully authentic and fully able to be in...

5 Dec 202227min

“I personally am not an eye contact person. So, when I'm working with my clients it's nice that neither of us have that expectation that we have to make eye contact, we have to shake each others' hand...

28 Nov 202222min