The Art of Autism is taking nominations for your favorite informative blogs in a number of categories. Here are our nominations so far for favorite blog – autistic male perspective. To vote click on who you want to vote for and hit the vote button at the bottom. Voting ends March 15, 2017. We …

“Hiring autistic people solves many problems. It allows their skills to be utilized and takes a burden off the system,” Steve Andrews By Debra Muzikar Last month, I had the pleasure to interview Steve Andrews, founder of Platinum Bay Technologies. Over a cup of coffee he shared his story and laid ou…

Diagnoses like autism, ADHD and dyslexia, to name a few, are examples of neurodiversity. The battle may be harder, but hope is not yet lost. By Carly Fulgham The last civil rights battle just got harder. You may think I mean the fight for equal pay for women, or equal protection under the law for no…

October is Disability History Month. Colin Eldred-Cohen looks at some historical figures who may possibly have been on the autism spectrum. By Colin Eldred-Cohen A wise man once said, “To understand the future, we must go back in time.” Today, we’re going to embrace that saying as we look back at m…

Long overdue Autism Speaks removes the word “cure” and puts the needs of autistic individuals and their families first in their new mission statement By Debra Muzikar At a Board meeting in late September the biggest autism nonprofit in the world, Autism Speaks, revamped its mission state…

From when I was very young, I watched people’s behavior. If someone was purposely rude, or mistreated people, I immediately lost all interest in them. If someone tried to bully me, I immediately thought, well, if I’m too different for them, they’d never accept Anthony…I don&#…

by Debra Muzikar Editor’s Note: Normal People Scare Me Too is available for purchase on the NormalFilms website. The next screening of Normal People Scare Me Too will be on August 13 in Los Angeles. View the Channel 17 news (NBC) in Bakersfield for the screening at Inclusion Films.   It’…

Ten tips that can help parents, teachers and caregivers By Samantha Craft Thinking about three autistics, my middle son (age 17), my adult partner, and myself, the following things assist us: 1.Having things out in the open When items are out in the open and I can see them and know there is ‘enoug…

Autism comic strip by autistic artist Carissa P. depicts “Baby Talk” by Debra Muzikar A couple weeks ago my Facebook friend Stefanie shared with me this audio clip she recorded on her I-phone. Stefanie just turned 49. In the audio clip you can hear her neighbor (who has known her since …

by Debra Muzikar Editor’s Note: Normal People Scare Me Too is available for purchase on NormalFilms website. It was released this week. We will be screening this film on the Art of Autism’s California Road Trip in May. James Jagow’s created the musical score for the trailer. It&#…

Some opportunities The Art of Autism has come across for autistic people and their families. The National Autism Association Give A Voice Program is giving away free IPADS to non-verbal autistic people. They have a limited amount of funding and each application will be reviewed for financial need. T…

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, the first anthology of its kind – a call for donations by Lydia Brown Leaving Evidence I am a proud autistic of color working with the Autism Women’s Network to create the first ever anthology of art and writings by autistics of colo…

I got it. You had to be tough to be black. There was no crying, no picky eating, none of this I can’t look you in the eye. Humor was a way of toughening yourself up, because the world was going to be tough for us, so if you don’t have a sense of humor now, you had better develop one. By …

by Debra Muzikar Editor’s Note: The official trailer for Normal People Scare Me Too was released yesterday. James Jagow’s created the musical score for the trailer. It’s 2002. Keri Bowers is raising her 14-year old autistic son, Taylor, in Thousand Oaks, a suburban community in …