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Seven Beliefs that Keep All of Us (Autistic and Allistic alike) from Making Friends

Seven Beliefs that Keep All of Us (Autistic and Allistic alike) from Making Friends

by Love and Autism Community | Jun 14, 2019 | Love & Autism

Guest post by Kyler Shumway, MA. Co-host of You Belong, Love & Autism for teens! Unfurl a large blank scroll in your mind and stretch it across the table. This is your timeline, the story of your life. To your left, we see your birth. To the right, we see you, at...
Fall Candles, Wine, Tears, and Conference Review

Fall Candles, Wine, Tears, and Conference Review

by Dr. Jenny Palmiotto | Dec 7, 2018 | Love & Autism

Leadership is a personal and vulnerable experienceIt took me exactly a week to find the courage to review the stack of Love & Autism conference forms. I knew it would be emotional, even gut-wrenching at times.For me, reading conference reviews is about as personal...
Autistic Power on the Job

Autistic Power on the Job

by Love and Autism Community | Sep 3, 2018 | Love & Autism, Stories of Love & Autism

This guest blog post was submitted to Love & Autism by Samantha Craft (aka Marcelle Ciampi), a speaker at the 2018 conference. Sean, a member of the selection committee for the ANCA World Autism Festival, wrote: “ … I am a brilliant logical thinker. I...
10 Tips for Teaching Values Through Daily Activism

10 Tips for Teaching Values Through Daily Activism

by Dr. Jenny Palmiotto | Aug 20, 2018 | Love & Autism

We’ve had a year of activism, my children and I. Gracie and Oliver joined our fellow humanitarians at the Women’s March, as women’s rights are human rights. We sadly found ourselves among children who fear for their lives while attending school when we participated in...
Coming Out from Under the Radar

Coming Out from Under the Radar

by Love and Autism Community | Aug 13, 2018 | Love & Autism, Stories of Love & Autism

This guest blog post was submitted to Love & Autism by author Sally J. Pla. When I tell friends I was recently diagnosed with autism, some of them scoff and call it nonsense. They say I function fine — that I smile, laugh, and socialize. I’m a mother who is active...
Tired. Sickened. Exhausted…. Hopeful.

Tired. Sickened. Exhausted…. Hopeful.

by Dr. Jenny Palmiotto | Aug 6, 2018 | Love & Autism

I’m tired. I’m tired of the fight. Fighting takes something out of you and in our autism community it feels like there is a lot of fighting. Fighting for an initial diagnosis, fighting to keep the diagnosis, fighting to get services, fighting to find...
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