Tiny Grace Notes (Ask an Autistic)

Today is flash blog day! Autistic people like myself were asked to complete the phrase “autistic people should…” This is in response to the...

Trigger alert: Comparing self to computer. Sometimes when my Mac has too many things going on at the same time I get the Spinning Beach Ba...

You can read in   Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking  about the shall-remain-nameless professor who said in front of me and many others i...

Layenie, my wife, is a pediatric nurse.  In the US, RNs are trained to be proficient at all kinds of nursing and prepared for whatever comes...

--> Hi! I have a question for you (well 2, but they are related). I have a 3.5 year old son. He was diagnosed at 16 months. He i...

This post is meant to be a quick partner piece to Amy Sequenzia's excellent questioning and reframing of independence .  I will get back...

--> Time is a pretend thing.   I am supposed to have “time agnosia,” but I think I would prefer to say I am an achronist.   As a...