“Do It For Your Son” It finally happened. Not that it hasn’t happened before, and from our “own” community. But today it was different in a feeling-punched kind of way. We were at a doctor’s office with A. He was grinning and yukking up the attention from both of us parents while we sat in … Continue reading 151. Do It For Your Son

Every once in a while, someone is awesome enough to tell me that they enjoy my blog. Thank you for reading, and for letting me know. That means a whole lot. I don’t expect to hear only praise, but I will offer some gentle pushback to the critiques: 1. If you feel my expectations for … Continue reading 150. A Gentle Pushback

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Being, at least for a few decades, someone’s everything

We excuse ourselves from doing arduous things that would build stronger character traits

Diversity is not the weird appropriations and erasures that pass for acceptance

Why do we expect extreme labor from autistic people, while we do none?

Our children live in the empty granaries beneath your castle

Remind yourself: I am an ableist. I am exhausting to be around

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