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…
Tag: biographies
Nearing the end of NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman, the subtitle seems more appropriate: “The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurdiversity.” Finally, I’m making connections between various meanings of the title and the text. The Legacy of Autism Autism, at least for now, is an undefined disability, a handicap with symptoms in…
[Note: First Blogger post to The Autistic Me, from 2007] When I was diagnosed as autistic in 2006, I was 37 years old. I’m still struggling to make sense of the diagnosis, wondering what it explains and what it does not explain. More importantly, I am wondering if I can…