My wife and I have two neurodiverse young daughters. The girls are in the first and third grades, ages at which doctors verify or revise diagnoses. As parents, we reference my experiences with the health and education systems to evaluate the services provided to the girls. Reading Rosie Weldon’s autobiography…
Category: Education
Posts on teaching, studying, educational systems, and institutions.
My personal traumas might seem minor, yet they are traumas that cause me a lot of misery. If I’ve had a bad experience somewhere, I relive it when I pass nearby. In Minneapolis, I struggled to walk or drive past some buildings on the university campuses. In Pittsburgh, I could…
The future scares me. The Pessimistic Me dominates my internal deliberations when I try to prepare for the future. I’m an odd mix of pessimist and optimist, which isn’t easy to explain. A friend said that’s true of other creators and entrepreneurs. Yes, I gamble on the future, but I prepare…
Podcast Episode 0049; Season 04, Episode 13; November 24, 2020 Daniel Sansing and I discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic encourages colleges and universities to reconsider how we support autistic students in higher education. Is online education an accommodation or does it leave out important life skills? Daniel Sansing, MEd., Literacy and Second Language…
Podcast 048; Season 4, Episode 12; November 17, 2020 What I’ve Learned about Teaching I’ve learned a lot about teaching over the last 30 years. Like everyone else, I’ve been learning about teaching since my first day as a student. Unfortunately, the lessons suggest that education is broken, and so…
Podcast 047; Season 4, Episode 11; November 10, 2020 Please don’t add chaos to the world. Follow directions. I try to teach my students the value of directions. As parents, my wife and I try to teach the same lesson to our daughters. When you follow directions, fewer things go wrong, there’s less chaos,…
Followers of The Autistic Me blog and podcast send along emails and direct social media messages with topic suggestions and questions. Many of these, I have answered in the past. I try to address private questions when asked, as well. What questions should I be addressing? Which topics are valuable to…
Podcast 042; Season 4, Episode 6; October 6, 2020 Being correct matters a lot to me. When I don’t know something for certain, I look it up in a book or online. Like many autistics, there are topics about which I am passionate, leading me to collect a lot of books.…
Podcast Episode 0039; Season 04, Episode 03; September 15, 2020 I’ve always been anxious. I was probably born anxious. Is that an autistic trait? It seems to be one I share with most autistics I meet. An Anxious Autistic Me, Aging Welcome to The Autistic Me Podcast. I am Christopher Scott Wyatt,…
Podcast Episode 0038; Season 04, Episode 02; September 1, 2020 To my disappointment, but not surprise, the most-read blog post on The Autistic Me discusses the research on autistics making other people uncomfortable from the moment they meet us. I have taught business courses for several years. As part of…