Shannon Rosa is the senior editor and co-founder of Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, an autism and neurodiversity information and advocacy nexus. Her writing and speaking about disability and parenting are in the Washington Post, Spectrum, and NPR. She lives in California with her family.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
The label "Profound autism" bungles the support needs of autistic people with complex disabilities, and will endanger autistic lives.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Jenny Mai Phan is an Asian American autistic autism researcher, an IACC member, and the mother of four children—two of whom are autistic.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Parents should tell their children they are autistic in ways that help them understand and feel good about who they are.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Our senior editor spoke at UC Davis's 2021 Neurodiversity Summit, on including autistic people with intellectual & communication disabilities.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Autistic people are a vulnerable community, and as stakeholders in the Spectrum 10K debate, we deserve full and transparent engagement.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
What if the "preventing autism diagnoses" headlines had read, “Autism doesn’t have to be a problem if children are understood and supported”?| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people and autism researchers about priorities in autism research.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
TC Waisman says, "When I show up in a room, I'm Black first. That's what people see. They don’t see the invisible disabilities right away."| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
We talked with Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai about the overlap of mental health & autism, & the evidence-backed tendency of autistic people to be LGBT.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Why autistic play (solitary, stimmy, etc.) is not "wrong," and can have an important function in supporting relaxation and recuperation.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
