Disability Awareness Bewareness
Amy Sequenzia on Disability Awareness campaigns that silence the very people they claim to advocate for. I Am Aware of You I am aware of you Of your dismissiveness Of your hostility Of your badly disguised contempt You say you do all that Because it is a much needed First step A first step Towards acceptance, you say But we need to change our ways first A first step Towards better services, you say As long as not-us are served first You claim to speak for some of us The ones you call trapped Voiceless Severely damaged But
Autism and Measuring Normal
by Judy Endow Even though people described me as in my own world as I was growing up, I was in the same world as every other human being. I could not help it that other people could not see the details of the world such as the sun sparkles and the misty tails rising up from the ground early in the morning like I could, but that didn’t mean our worlds were different. Instead our experience of the same world was different. My experience was much more robust because I had ever so much more to see
Don’t Define Me By My Deficits
My advice for younger autistics and for those who love and support them would be to look at who you ARE as a human being.
