The Joy of Autism

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

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

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

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

A New Kind of Autism Lobby: A Proposal

I’m writing my thesis and am hankering to blog – so many things on my mind with the recent Ontario budget proposal, the ever-so teensy weensy allowance for an individual on ODSP to take home a couple hundred bucks a month and the way we may...

Published Thu, May 09 2013 8:53 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Autism and Learning, Critical Disability Studies, Autism and Intelligence, Acceptance, communication, autism, Advocacy, Politics, Organizations/Events, Ableism, Language, Community, Charity, The Autism Acceptance Project

Upcoming Events and News:

TORONTO, May 7, 2013 – The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) is beginning a new project at the request of the Ontario government to address how adults with developmental or mental disabilities might be better enabled to participate in the federal Registered...

Published Fri, May 10 2013 9:48 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inclusion, Law, Disability Finances/Benefits

Non-Verbal Autism, Identity and Power

The Autism Acceptance Project (TAAP) will post a new announcement on its website about its forthcoming work and formation of a new board of directors. TAAP is an organization that is directed by autistic people, and facilitated by non-autistic supporters...

Published Tue, May 14 2013 5:15 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Uncategorized, communication, Ableism

The Autism “Spectrum,” Assessed Identity…some thoughts

This photo is of Adam with his Grandma. I know I don’t write about Adam that much these days. I’m always caught in ethical considerations about his right to privacy and protection versus the benefits of sharing stories. I work a lot with autistic...

Published Thu, May 16 2013 8:07 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Adam, Autism and Learning, Acceptance, communication, Computing/iPad, Spectrumism, Identity

Two Vulnerables

When Adam awoke struggling to breathe yesterday, I felt awash with dread. It was noon. I let him sleep in because when I went in earlier, he was warm. By noon, I heard the barking cough – the seal-like sound gasping for air. His face was beat red...

Published Tue, May 28 2013 10:35 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Adam

Personal Interest and Academic Reserach

The end of the day of Adam healing from the croup and us both watching repeats of Wretches & Jabberers for my thesis. Adam can’t help laughing at the scenes of Naoki jumping up and down to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee –...

Published Tue, May 28 2013 7:10 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Adam, Critical Disability Studies, Writing, Autism and Intelligence, communication, Advocacy, Politics, Computing/iPad, Community, Living

The DSM V and Services

My copy of the DSM V is here. Ari Ne’eman made this address regarding the how the DSM V may effect autism services. I wrote this response this morning on the Facebook link: I agree with his point that suggests the hierarchy of disability and how...

Published Mon, Jun 03 2013 8:11 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: DSM V, What is Disability?, (Dis) abilities

New Members of The Autism Acceptance Project (TAAProject)

TAAP New Members Meeting From Left to Right: Bev Leroux, Nelson Lui, Estee Klar, Todd Simkover, Michael Moon and Corina Becker. Today we had our first offline TAAP meeting since the re-launch of the website and we look forward to more work ahead. I’d...

Published Mon, Jun 03 2013 5:16 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: The Autism Acceptance Project

How I Deal

So I’ve just put Adam to bed. We’ve had another challenging month – a major basement flood ruined his space where he jumps on a trampoline and has his OT equipment. It’s his space where he is king. It’s our second flood,...

Published Mon, Jun 10 2013 7:39 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Anxiety, Estee, Acceptance, Joy, The Joy Of Autism, autism, Parenting, Ableism, NEugenics

An Autistic Boy’s Life is Not A Paragraph

Adam has progressively better days since the basement flood and croup. When he seems anxious or derailed by life events I quickly engage everyone on Adam’s team – what has worked well for him is more predictability, gentle voices, activity...

Published Wed, Jun 12 2013 7:12 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Anxiety, Development, Transitions, Parenting, Books

The Autism “Campus” and the Ableist Potential of “Potential”

Part of writing a blog and writing at all is the responsibility I tend to feel for supporting myself and others. Yet I have to tell you, since Adam was diagnosed with this ambiguous “autism” nearly 11 years ago now, anger and frustration and...

Published Mon, Jun 17 2013 7:53 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Institutions, Ableism

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