To the parent whose child was just diagnosed with autism

Hi moms and dads 🙂 A little muse tapped me on the shoulder today to let me know that somebody …

Sharing: The #autistic medical model makes me sick

Originally posted on Aspie Under Your Radar:
There’s more to my autistic self and experience than the medical model can conceptualize Note: This…

The Autistic Pride Award [500th Post]

As some of y’all are aware, it has become a little informal tradition on this blog to dedicate every 100th …

Sharing: Positively differently abled…

Originally posted on The Misadventures of Mama Pineapple:
It’s coming up to a week since I received verbal confirmation of my diagnosis. And whilst…

‘Special interest’ vs obsession

The diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s/autism includes the tendency toward: “Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus …

A really big Thank You <3

I wanted to let y’all know that this blog reached 100,000 hits sometime overnight the night before last, by over …

Omg, I’m pedantic, too. Kind of. Part 2

So…in the last post, I mentioned that I’m sort of pedantic.  And apparently, I’m not alone!   In that last …