In this post, I’d like us to have a look at words commonly used by non disabled people in conversations about disability, and how they are using them. Continue reading
Category: Advocacy
Open letter to Miranda Devine
Open letter to Miranda Devine, from a disabled mother, married to a disabled man, with disabled children: Continue reading
Thoughts on acceptance
Every now and then, not really frequently, but often enough that I am going to say something about it, I see a sentiment brought into conversations by non-autistic parents of Autistic children that goes along the lines of …. Continue reading
The Autism Community and the Autistic Community
In the ongoing dialogue around the needs of Autistic people, I see a pretty consistent divide.
There is a group of people saying that Autistic people need to be put in therapy or treatment to ease their symptoms, and that it would be good if there was a way to cure or prevent Autism.
And there is a group saying they don’t and it wouldn’t. Continue reading
I am tired of the Autism tragedy song: Can we change the music now?
I am tired. So, so tired.
It is not a lack of sleep tiredness, but a heaviness in the core of my being kind of tiredness.
It is a tiredness that comes from trying to process a consistent incongruence, as if the soundtrack doesn’t match the story, and it makes everything seem wrong. Continue reading
