By Carly Fulgham In ‘The View from Here’ we are zooming in on four autistic individuals and where they are on their life journeys. Our Editor-at-Large, Conner Cummings, came up with the idea and the name was voted on by a group of our autistic peers. In this issue, Carly Fulgham shares her journey t…

By Nicolette Anderson For Liam, chaos is everywhere. For our family, chaos arises every day. In the middle of our home, while we sit to eat dinner, watch television, or get ready for bed, Liam begins to scream. Sometimes we can figure out what caused it; the worst days are when we cannot. Liam will…

People with autism show scant activity in a poorly understood molecular process thought to regulate gene expression in the brain, according to a new study1. The process, called RNA editing, turns out to involve two proteins central to fragile X syndrome, one of the most common causes of autism. The …

In the years immediately after a parent learns of a diagnosis of autism, it can be especially challenging to think of your child’s autism diagnosis long term. But as parents advocate for their child, and as practitioners work with the family to create goals for that child, the long term must be cons…

  Many of us, without a doubt, use Microsoft Office products on a daily basis. Writing documents, creating spreadsheets, sending and receiving emails, and creating and presenting presentations is a part of everyone’s daily drudgery exciting life, and we can surely thank Word, Excel, Outlo…

There are two main reasons why people are so angry about this book.Source: The Autism Site

About 1 in 59 children in the United States has autism, according to data released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Four times as many boys as girls have the condition, according to the report1. The data are based on a 2014 survey of 325,483 children across 11 stat…

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By Lyric Holmans, Neurodivergent Rebel I learned I was Autistic at the age of 29, after almost thirty years of struggling in life and not knowing why I struggled with things that people around me often took for granted. When you have a hard time with the easy things, it’s difficult to ap…

Here’s how Durkin describes what she will present in this webinar: Autism and intellectual disability are two of the most common forms of neurodevelopmental disability in childhood, and both have effects throughout the lifespan. In recent decades, the prevalence of both conditions — as w…

For many people living with paralysis, spinal cord injuries or other disabilities that don't allow a lot of body movement, a big frustration for them is that they are not able to physically participate with their able bodied family members. Imagine someone who is paralyzed from their neck down, want…

What now?In the aftermath of this election there is some celebration but for others there is tremendous angst, fear, and unrest. The election map shows what a bubble those of us in the northeast and west coasts live in relative to the rest of the country. I saw that clearly last week, when I spoke i…

Sheldon Cooper, a character in the long-running television show “The Big Bang Theory,” becomes flustered at the smallest change in his routine — if someone sits in what he considers to be his spot on the couch, for example, or if something disrupts his morning routine of eating cereal while watching…

By Dana Trick In my last blog post I wrote about how the representation of autism and characters with autism are mostly poorly done and act like a walking bag of stereotypes as a result. Though I did mention that these poor representations had made me hesitant to watch shows that had an autistic c…