Diagnostic criteria for Allistic Spectrum Disorder [ICD: F84.6; DSM: 299.99]

(Beginning Note #1: This is meant to be tongue-in-cheek satire, folks 🙂  This is not meant to generalize or lump …

Too much emotion

This post might make me come across as a cold, detached person at first, but those of you who know …

Friends on the Asperger’s / autism spectrum

Throughout my life, I’ve always had a hard time making friends.  I’ve always ever only had three good friends at …

Dear general neurotypical population: we know more about you than you know about us:

Today I feel like going on a road trip down Irony Lane. First, I’ll lay down some basics. Basic Tidbit …

Sharing: getting rid of us won’t keep you safe: #actuallyautistic rage, MIT, and eugenics

I know, I know – I beat the MIT autism research center topic to death yesterday, but this was too …

Depathologizing Asperger’s / autism ~ In a way, neurotypical people might meet the criteria, too

Hang on – don’t (understandably) snarl just yet; keep reading. 🙂  This is not yet another ignorant “everybody’s somewhere on …

A world dominated by Aspie / autistic people… Part 2

Well, I hit “Publish” on the previous post before I realized that I had only blogged roughly half of the …

A world dominated by Aspie / autistic people…

For those of us on Twitter, there’s been a tag-theme flying around lately, called “IfTheWorldWasBuiltForMe”.  If you missed it, or …

If the world were built for/by Asperger’s/autistic people (my idea for an ‘Aspie Utopia’)

Sometimes we realize it consciously; other times we feel it subconsciously… …that the world is not built for us. At …