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Ingrid @ January 9, 2011 # No Comment Yet
Here’s a very informative interview with Ari Ne’eman, an autistic 22 year old who was recently appointed by President Obama to the National Council on Disability. Some salient points: Autism Speaks raises lots of money through their walks for a cure, but only four cents on every dollar goes to services for autistic individuals and [...]
Ingrid @ September 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
First broadcast in 2005, The Boy With the Incredible Brain is a documentary about Daniel Tammet who has a fantastic ability with numbers and languages. He can learn to speak a new language in one week. He wrote a memoir called Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. I [...]
Ingrid @ July 31, 2010 # One Comment
This is a great article explaining Neurodiversity with an awesome analogy which conveys that the human brain functions as an organism versus its typical comparison that it functions like a machine. The article is an excerpt of the book Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences, by Thomas Armstrong, [...]
Ingrid @ August 11, 2009 # 2 Comments
Estée Klar from The Joy of Autism has posted a video (which aired in 2008 on CBC) called Positively Autistic on her site. It shows what it’s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren’t exposed to. Some wonderful quotes from clip 1: The lack of positive expectation [...]
