DETROIT (WWJ)- Detroit police say a 15-year old autistic boy who went missing after leaving school has been found. David Frazier was reported missing Wednesday after he was last seen leaving King High School around 3:20 p.m. Early Thursday, police confirmed Frazier had been found safe, but...
Who We Are More A Home for Emma and Her Friends . . . About Jessa's Place is a home for adults with autism and other intellectual or developmental disabilities. One of the biggest questions for parents of children with such disabilities is this: "What happens when we are gone (or no ...
is that I don’t know what I would move forward to. I don’t know who I would be without them. It’s so far removed from who I am, from how I feel when I allow myself to access that seemingly bottomless well of darkness, that I don’t even know where to start...
I then, in pure depression, rang my GP. She’s the only person in all this who has some empathy. Okay, she can’t actually do anything like prescribe the medication, but she “gets it”. She doesn’t judge me and she understands PDA. She’s also a human. The GP said she’d ge...
This is an example of infantilization. In fact, Nita Prose seems to have written a 10-year-old Autistic girl, not a 25-year-old Autistic woman. This makes sense given the author’s CV: Someone who has taught Autistic children is not necessarily knowledgeable in how Autistic brains mature,...
I welcome additions from anyone who is Sick or Disabled in an often unapparent way. In each section, I start with the DON'Ts to help highlight the DOs. 1. Being the Judge. The Judge says: "You were able to do that yesterday." "But you went on a hike with me once." "You ...
I’m Emily, moderator for AWN, co-editor of “What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew” anthology, and co-editor of We Are Like Your Child!#AutINSAR — Emily Paige Ballou (@epballou)May 11, 2018 Hi, I’m Carol@Aspieadvocatea co-editor at@thinkingautismThinking Person’s Guide...
Super excited for the wonderful@itsemilykatynew book ‘Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life’ Her book is out on Thursday March 28th, and I had the pleasure of having Emily back on my 21andsensory podcast to chat all about the book and the process of writing it! We al...
16)Hints don’t work.Just bloody tell us. (Seriously, on my first ever date the girl wanted me to pay for her lunch, so instead of just asking me honestly she hinted that she didn’t have enough money for food and for the bus. I just smiled and said “don’t worry, cheesy chips...
In fact, the former is a guy with glasses, almost bald 'because it's practical' pays no attention to his appearance and clothes which his mother buy. The latter is a girl who's 1.81 metres long, looks like Mary-Jane Watson, energetic, different hair colour every two weeks and too ...