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 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 Love and Autism Community | Jul 20, 2018 | Stories of Love & Autism
My name is Maverick Crawford III and I am an African American man with a story that is full of disappointment and abandonment. I grew up in a violent neighborhood where crime, poverty, drugs and bad influences ran rampant throughout the community. The majority of the...
by Love and Autism Community | May 31, 2018 | Stories of Love & Autism
This was submitted to us through our Love & Autism Story campaign. To submit your story of Love & Autism, go here. David was in third grade when he shared, “something must be wrong with me…. It must be mom.” I held my breath and he continued, “Every time...
by Love and Autism Community | Mar 26, 2018 | Stories of Love & Autism
My name is Aspling, and I am a girl on the autistic spectrum. But more importantly I am a human being, just like any other human being. I grew up feeling like an outsider, a lost cause, different. I had friends, the same friends, then as I grew up I started spending...
by Love and Autism Community | Dec 18, 2017 | Stories of Love & Autism
“Nobody ever looks behind the pen.” ― Khali Raymond Living with Asperger’s is not an easy feat. It never is. Imagine yourself in a room full of people. All of those people are laughing and mingling. Meanwhile, you aren’t. You’re sitting there in the corner...