disability

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All Done Autism Awareness

by Shannon Des Roches Rosa There’s a saying we overuse in my household: “All done, [X]!” We’ve actually swiped the saying from our son Leo,…

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Killing Words

by Zoe Gross Let me present to you a sequence of events. On March 6th, a 22-year-old autistic man named George Hodgins was murdered in…

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The I-Word

by Ian Ford We have come a long way, right? We used to be called idiots and lunatics. Now we are referred to as individuals…

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Plants Outside the Shade

by Amanda Baggs   This is a personal description of some of what autism means to me. Because even among other autistic people such descriptions…

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Awareness Is Not Enough

by Kathryn Bjornstad-Kelly I knew autism awareness before I knew I was Autistic.  I didn’t know what autism was, but I heard the word all…

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