Autist's Corner

John Elder Robison may be the second-most-famous autistic person alive now --- Temple Grandin, of course, being the most famous --- and, as ...

My heart really goes out to Jason O'Dell ; he and I seem to be in similar circumstances. He recently applied for work as a lab technicia...

First, a little background information : Today, there's something going on called Communication Shutdown , in which people are encourage...

Ari Ne'eman , founding president of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network and now a member of the National Council on Disability , spoke t...

Stephanie Lynn Keil left a comment on this post at FWD/Forward that I think raises a very good point: long, densely-written blog posts ar...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : A business columnist for my local newspaper has written a column urging employers to think about hiring autistic worker...

Yesterday was the first of May, which had two immediate associations for me: May baskets and "Wolverine." But it was also Bloggin...

There's an interesting article by Amherst College's Kristin Bumiller in this past summer's issue of the University of Chicago...

These two posts at And Stimming With Rainbows of Every Design struck a chord with me. I actually panicked a bit reading the first one, si...

Dawn Prince-Hughes 's memoir Songs of the Gorilla Nation is a very short book (my copy has 224 pages, with wide margins and 1.5 line sp...

Through GRASP 's e-newsletter, I got a questionnaire about "cultural institutions" (theaters, museums, art galleries etc.) and...