ASAN April Update
ASAN April Newsletter Dear friend, This Autism Acceptance Month has been a challenging one, but our community has continued to fight back against attacks on our rights. Over the last year, many powerful people have been telling lies about autism. People in the government have told lies about autism and vaccines. They have told lies about…
Reasons You Didn’t Realize You’re Autistic
by Diane J. Wright, Founder of Autastic®Created for Autistic Self-Advocacy Network ⁂ This goes out to all of you who learned, or are learning, you’re autistic after decades of running in overdrive. How is it possible that your being autistic went under the radar all this time? Here are a few reasons that are often…
Safe Foods are Access, not Failure
Written by Steph Baldassarre for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network ⁂ For most of my life, food hasn’t been about preference as much as it’s been about predictability. The easiest way to explain that is through a tuna sandwich I ordered from the same place for years. One of my favorite safe foods was a…