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An Open Letter About Autism Acceptance to Pope Francis from Amy Sequenzia
Dear Pope Francis: I think I am supposed to call you “Your Holiness”. I am here to teach you some important things about autism, about being Autistic, and about Autism Speaks. You recently met with...
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Respectfully Connected: Interview with the Authors
Autism Women’s Network is dedicated to building a inclusive community for Autistic women and girls of all ages, their families, friends, and allies to support one another and share experiences. This...
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Disabled People Being Silenced by Unethical Media
I don’t trust the media. Disabled people are often denied a voice, while experts, professionals, policy makers, “advocacy” organizations, parents, and the media itself talk about us, and about all that...
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Meet Kimberly Steiner, AWN Online Content Moderator
What things are fun about me? I really love to cook. I live in the deep South (Hi! ya’ll) so my cooking reflects the area in which I live. I really enjoy cooking for other people; it is very satisfying...
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Tell Me About Your Autism Awareness Month
So, you got all excited about the Autism Awareness campaigns because you have an Autistic child – pardon me, child “with autism”, or a friend’s child “has autism”, or a friend of a friend knows someone...
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April 2015 Event a Success!
Saturday April 18th, Autism Women’s Network and The Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library hosted an Autism Acceptance Event in Stanwood, WA! Image is table in front of two windows. On top of...
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Social Media and Privacy for People with Disabilities
In social media, I see a lot of things that make me cringe, get angry and sad. One of those things is how some parents of disabled people – mostly children, but also adults – disrespect their privacy,...
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Allies: Are You Hurting Us Or Helping Us?
I’m tired. I’m tired of being told how I should and should not do activism. I’m tired of feeling like someone is always working against me when they claim to be working with me. My entire life I have...
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Why I #BoycottAutismSpeaks
I Boycott Autism Speaks because I am Autistic and I value my life. I Boycott Autism Speaks because I value all lives. Autism Speaks is a hate group that uses marketing strategies to deceive the public...
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What Does Autism Speaks “Call For Unity” Mean?
In very few words: crisis management. But this is an informative post, so I will give the information. Neurotypical writer Steve Silberman just published his extensively researched book on, more...
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Walk In My Shoes
Content warning: use of the R-word and murders of disabled people. (Please, read this post: http://timetolisten.blogspot.com/2013/09/here-try-on-some-of-my-shoes.html. What I write here is inspired –...
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#LiveBoldly You And I – #MeWithYou
This post is to add my voice to the many disabled people protesting the film “Me Before You”, and the unsatisfactory responses of the actors of the film, and the writer of the book (the film is based...
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Awesomely Autistic, Awesomely Distinguishable
I have written quite a lot about ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), which I call Autistic Conversion Therapy. The official language of the program is “to make Autistic children indistinguishable from...
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Acceptance and Representation
We, Autistic activists and our true allies, talk a lot about Autism Acceptance and how important it is to value our neurology. Acceptance shows that Autistics are respected as we are. I want more than...
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My Personality Is Not a Sub-Type Presentation
When I was first identified as autistic around 2001, very little had been written about autistic girls. There was a page or two in Tony Attwood’s book Asperger’s Syndrome, but there were very few books...
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April 2015 Event a Success!
Saturday April 18th, Autism Women’s Network and The Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library hosted an Autism Acceptance Event in Stanwood, WA! Image is table in front of two windows. On top of...
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Social Media and Privacy for People with Disabilities
In social media, I see a lot of things that make me cringe, get angry and sad. One of those things is how some parents of disabled people – mostly children, but also adults – disrespect their privacy,...
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Allies: Are You Hurting Us Or Helping Us?
I’m tired. I’m tired of being told how I should and should not do activism. I’m tired of feeling like someone is always working against me when they claim to be working with me. My entire life I have...
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Why I #BoycottAutismSpeaks
I Boycott Autism Speaks because I am Autistic and I value my life. I Boycott Autism Speaks because I value all lives. Autism Speaks is a hate group that uses marketing strategies to deceive the public...
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What Does Autism Speaks “Call For Unity” Mean?
In very few words: crisis management. But this is an informative post, so I will give the information. Neurotypical writer Steve Silberman just published his extensively researched book on, more...
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