The Joy of Autism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who is Safe; Who is “At Risk?” Some More Considerations Before April

As we head into April, I thought I’d post Protest on the Plinth which states that the value system from the Nazi era hasn’t changed much today. If people make out disabled people’s lives to be “intolerable,” then how can...

Published Mon, Mar 25 2013 6:05 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Activism, Inclusion, Research, Advocacy, school, Ableism, Disability History, The Autism Genome Project, Newgenics, Charity, Government Services, Pity, NEugenics

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