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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Dr. Jenny Palmiotto | Jul 30, 2018 | Love & Autism
Around eighteen years ago, I met the first autistic person that I was told had this label. This was in my very first “real job.” I exited the world of waitressing to work in a residential group home managed by Devereux Treatment Center in Santa Barbara, CA. Five...
