TW: Mention of physical abuse, Neuro bigotry, CN: Explicit language First, let’s define neuro bigotry. Simply put, neuro bigotry is prejudice against neurodivergent people. I want to talk about allowing a specific kind of person...
Today the Disabled Parenting Project held their annual Tweet Chat for Mother’s Day. With it, it always makes me think about what I would like to see done to better support disabled parents, whether we...
CW: Christians, Religion, Bible verses TW: Child Abuse, Ableism in the Church Disclaimer: I am a Christian. I’m writing this hopefully for other Christians. If you are not a Christian, please do not feel the...
CW: ABA, Pseudoscience I want to address the autistic community today. Not allies.. Not the parent community. Just the autistic people who believe in autism acceptance.. neurodiversity principles… the social model of disability. I’ve been...
This weekend, For Autistic Empowerment at the University of Texas at Dallas had a Autistic Culture Rally and brought in Kassiane Asasumasu to speak. It’s the first time I’ve been in Autistic Culture in 3 years? 4?...
So the saying goes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And we all have heard over and over how people shouldn’t be defined with the way they look. Today the reality of...
This is a follow up from several years ago on “I can’t initiate.” Earlier this afternoon, something inevitable happened. I questioned my current friendships. This happens from time to time. Mainly because, as the title...
Today is the National Disability Day of Mourning. This marks the 6th year that it has been observed. The last one I participated in was 4 years ago. I cried as I read the names...
Trigger/content warning: childhood abuse, politics, gaslighting (Not about autism!) This week was the US inauguration of the 45th president. Aerial photographs have been used by both “sides” to highlight the attendance. One photo graph from the...
So I’ve had some external stress that I can’t control recently. I’m weeding it out since it’s not really beneficial to me to stay around so off I go. But because of that, I’ve been...
