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Making Sense of Autism
Jim Sinclair, an autistic person, has a B.A. in Psychology and graduate education in Developmental and Child Psychology and in Rehabilitation Counseling.
How does my autism affect me? What does it do to me? Well, firstly, it makes me more of a loner than most people would be.
This is the place where I tell you about my autism...
Autism Information Library: Don't Mourn For Us
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Independence and Supports | Neurodiversity
I am not interested, in this particular post , in explaining why assistance technology and supported daily lives do not detract from independence, or why independence is not necessarily a goal, or why I focus on autonomy and self-determination instead.
Here is a true thing: people join Utata for the photography — but they stay for the conversation. So it's only natural — and maybe inevitable — that Utata would create a photography project called A Conversation.
Speaks :: Two Sides to Every Story
Some days it seems the only predictable thing about it is the unpredictability. The only consistent attribute -- the inconsistency There is little argument on any level but that autism is baffling, even to those who spend their lives around it. The child who lives with autism may look “normal” but his behavior can be perplexing and downright difficult.
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