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Author’s note: Yesterday in the blogosphere there was an Autism Positivity Day Flash Blog, sparked by one author noticing that someone had found their blog by searching “I wish I didn’t have Asperg…| Just Stimming...
Historically, Washington, DC has only provided home and community-based services (HCBS) to people with developmental disabilities who also have an intellectual disability. This year, DC is joining most of the rest of the country in expanding eligibility to include people with developmental disabilities, like autism, who don’t also have an intellectual disability but still need […]| Just Stimming…
When I was a child, I had severe deficiencies or delays in functional play skills, particularly with imaginative and cooperative play. (Or, that’s how a psychologist would put it.) I was taught some play routines — I learned to dress and feed a doll, assemble plastic food in a play kitchen, or move a stuffed […]| Just Stimming…
[Prepared text of a speech given at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network’s 10th Anniversary Gala on November 16th, 2016] Hello! Hello, and thank you all so much for being here. How’s everyone doing? Great. Great, that’s wonderful. I’m so glad to see you all here. We had a lot of internal conversations, over the last week, […]| Just Stimming…
There are two stories I could tell you. One: I’m clinging to my roommate’s arm, trying to (re)learn how to walk in heels. Two: a friend sent me a pair of shoes. ***** One: I wore heels, once. I was in a choir, a choir that was a Really Big Deal, and the high school […]| Just Stimming…
There’s a new person in my life, so we’re having the how-my-body-works talk. It’s a conversation I don’t think nondisabled people have. It goes like this: this is my body. This is how it works. It moves this way. These parts of can feel, and these can’t. This will hurt me, and this won’t. I […]| Just Stimming…
lol conflating disability and DEATH so casually that nobody but disabled ppl notices. So the thing is, most of this belongs at the bioethics conference, but, but, jesus. I remember being in high school and not being sure why, exactly, college had to be a thing, because I was going to be dead by the time […]| Just Stimming…
(This post could be seen as a self-narrating zoo-exhibit with bonus spot-the-theory-of-mind. I hope you’ll take it as a follow-up to The Obsessive Joy Of Autism, as equally about the experiences of visual processing impairments and synesthesia as about ~autism, and as a case study in the inadequacy of traditional verbal language. If I’d been […]| Just Stimming…
Buckle up kids, because this gets long and personal. So, a long time (~7 months) ago, in a galaxy far, far away (rural New Hampshire,) there lived a sad little girl (or KICKASS ADULT,) named Julia who just so happened to have a friend named C. C and Julia had spent the past several months […]| Just Stimming…
Author’s note: Yesterday in the blogosphere there was an Autism Positivity Day Flash Blog, sparked by one author noticing that someone had found their blog by searching “I wish I didn’t have Asperg…| Just Stimming...
There is this thing that happens sometimes. Parent has an autistic child. Autistic child doesn’t speak, or their speech isn’t an accurate window into what they are thinking. Autistic child is presu…| Just Stimming...
