Imagine if you got on a plane and the pilot was on the spectrum. Then they had to get a new pilot, not because the pilot wasn't skilled and talented enough to fly the plane, but—because of his autism—the laws of thermodynamics wouldn't work in such a way that the...
Interesting article on black people on the spectrum. The tone won't sit well with people of privilege but the content is good.
One of my favorite articles of all time about a guy on the autistic spectrum raised fundamentalist who left the Christian faith. For me, it was like God was an imaginary friend that I absolutely knew was real, rather than just merely a faith I had… and all the crazy...
The conventional means of getting a job will almost never work for those on the spectrum: Unless you're lucky and land a job right out of school your employment history is likely not going to have contiguous periods of full-time employment. When you apply online to...
I highly recommend a PBS Independent Lens documentary called Autism in Love (you can watch it online). It follows a few people on the spectrum who (like pretty much all of us) are looking for love. Some of them are in relationships, others are not. Even for the...
My parents and others are still in denial about me being on the spectrum. Since I was born blind and had poor vision as a baby they pin all my abnormal behavior on the visual impairment. I was always bad with eye contact from my birth to this day. I was better at it...
Another good thread on the Aspergers subreddit about someone who people treat poorly at their job. There are some really constructive responses. I never had trouble being treated bad in a vocation situation until I volunteered at Calvin in the summer of 2011. The...
Great Reddit post where people on the spectrum share their religious views.
From a post on my other blog: Social Skills: Again this term does a poor job of describing what goes on in the real world. Take the term woodworking skills. It describes someone’s ability to form good things out of wood. The point here is the wood isn’t resistant,...
Autism is Beautiful blog post: It’s okay to have your own sensory needs. Be comfortable. Don’t force yourself to dress a certain way because it’s what the world expects you to be like. If you’re the most comfortable in yoga pants and a t-shirt, rock it! Most...