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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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