April 2013 - The Joy of Autism - The Network of Care

Verbose Adam

I have to write so much for school that I don’t often get to write about daily life in a few rambling sentences. Spring is here, the pool is open and Adam, after his 11th birthday has had another burst of verbosity – forced out single words, a phrase...

Published Thu, Apr 25 2013 7:08 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Adam, communication, Computing/iPad

The Party

Adam had his 11th birthday party this past weekend. He has grown so much the past year, like a bamboo shoot – thin and taller. I always throw a party for Adam…it is our normal, perhaps your “quirk-fest.” No matter, it’s our...

Published Mon, Apr 22 2013 7:27 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Adam, Acceptance

Acceptance Is Action

Here are a few videos promoted by The Autistic Self Advoacy Network for Autism Acceptance Month with Amy Sequenza, Henry Frost and Kevin Barrett: —- And here, an interview Keep Hearing Voices with autistic self-advocate, Bev Harp. Digg this post...

Published Tue, Apr 16 2013 10:23 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance

On Certainty ~ A quote

“It is clear that our empirical propositions do not all have the same status, since one can lay down such a proposition and turn it from an empirical proposition into a norm of description. Think of chemical investigations. Lavoisier makes experiments...

Published Fri, Apr 12 2013 2:04 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Science

A Rehabilitation Proposal for Non-Autistic Canadian Citizens

I highly recommend Alicia A. Broderick’s article Autism As Rhetoric: Exploring Watershed Rhetorical Moments in Applied Behavoiral Analysis in Disability Studies Quarterly by clicking here. In it, she describes the false premise of autism “recovery”...

Published Thu, Apr 11 2013 9:07 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism

In Support of Autistic People

Here is one video I want to share in support of autistic people with Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher. If you haven’t yet watched Wretches and Jabberers, you can access the entire movie on You Tube. Here they are at a panel at Chapman University...

Published Tue, Apr 09 2013 3:38 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance, communication, Autistic Self Advocacy

Some ways to incorporate “autism acceptance”

To follow yesterdays post, I want to continue with some ways to incorporate “autism acceptance” into our communities while also resisting appropriation and totalizing effects. In other words, how do we keep the concept of acceptance open and...

Published Mon, Apr 08 2013 11:00 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Acceptance

Thoughts on “Blue” Campaigns for Autism “Awareness” Month

April 2nd makes me quiet. So many voices, so many people who need to “speak” on behalf of many autistic people – I don’t think that this needs another voice… well, just not on April 2nd “Light it Up Blue” Campaign...

Published Sun, Apr 07 2013 12:04 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Acceptance

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