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‘Nothing About Us Without Us:’ The Rise of Neurodivergent Researchers...

James Charlton is an American disability rights activist who traced the slogan “Nothing about us without us” to South African disability rights advocates in the 1980’s. Eastern European labor...

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Church and Children on the Autism Spectrum

America’s leading religious periodical, Christianity Today, found that US religious communities are failing children with autism, learning disabilities, depression and conduct disorders. And according...

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Autism and Gender Identity

We know autism exists on a spectrum. Gender does as well. And now research is demonstrating that these two spectrums strongly intersect. In the 1990’s, a growing number of children sought care for...

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“I Don’t Feel Good:” Heart Wrenching Bodycam Released Showing Salt Lake City...

The bodycam footage of police shooting thirteen year old Linden Cameron in Salt Lake City is out. Watching the video is viscerally painful: The mom explains that Linden needs hospitalization, but is...

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The Role of Siblings in Autism Families

Siblings of individuals on the autism spectrum have their own unique cross to bear. They are frequently overshadowed by the needs of their ASD sibling and the role they play in the family goes largely...

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Making Authentic Friendships (MAF): A New Autism Social Network

In the midst of this pandemic, it’s nigh unto impossible to address the isolation of individuals on the autism spectrum who were already socially estranged before the virus hit. My young adult ASD son...

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Camouflaging Autism

Autism is frequently conceptualized as a litany of odd behaviors, mannerisms and observable traits that distinguish an autistic person from a “normal” one. Historically, much credence has been placed...

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Housing Adults with Autism: The Next Emerging Challenge

A silver lining of the pandemic is that now 52% of all adult Americans under the age of 29 are living with their families. In and of itself, this is not good news, but for adults with autism who have...

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Renowned Autism Expert Dr. Tony Attwood Realizes His Adult Son Has Asperger’s...

Twelve years ago, I went to an all-day conference in Seattle featuring Australian Dr. Tony Attwood, the world’s foremost authority on Asperger’s Syndrome. Listening to one person for that many hours...

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Autism and Empathy

Anxiety is an elemental aspect of autism that severely impacts the lives of ASD individuals. Researchers are beginning to hone in not just on the fact of that anxiety, but the nature of it. Alexithymia...

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