NeurobeautifulMy first book, What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic, is now available as a paperback, hardcover, ebook, or audiobook!
For autistics everywhere, this is a book to help you understand your brain more deeply, with words you can borrow to describe who you truly are.
For non-autistics, it’s a book to see …
I saw a tweet pointing out “the neurodivergent urge to think you can solve any problem by just explaining things more and better and more and better” – which seems to imply a certain hopeless futility.
And in response, my heart cries out, “THIS, but unironically!”
Yes, I’ll fail sometimes. Yes, people won’t always understand. …
You may have heard of intermittent speech, where a person can speak at some times and not others. But have you heard of insufficient speech?
The term was new to me until I found a paper about the benefits of AAC – including low-tech AAC like writing or sign language – for autistic adults who …
Continuing my quest for precise and accurate language, I want to talk about the term “high functioning” – and why I’m not a fan of the most common alternative, “low support needs.”
“High functioning” is imprecise, because it can mean:
1. Support needs are lower. In this case, “low support needs” would be accurate – …
If you’re “twice exceptional” (gifted and disabled) and kids tease you at school, adults might say it’s because the kids are jealous.
I believe that’s hardly ever true. Here’s what I think is happening instead.
Outside school, where stress is likely lower, your gifts stand out more than your struggles. But inside school, or on …
I reject the narrative that a child is “not being herself” when she’s moody.
Because if so, who is she being? If she has become someone else, then where did her true self go?
Nowhere. She’s right there, hearing those words – and possibly taking them literally.
Wondering why people treat her like a changeling. …