stutterer finds his salvation in animals, hear his story on the colbert report

alan rabinowitz. on the colbert report. jun 10, 2008. watch the episode (apologies, it appears that since the time of this article’s posting, the video has since been removed). if you don’t want to watch the whole thing, just go to the point where colbert is speaking with alan rabinowitz, which [...]

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“Storms, inside and out”, over at mom-nos

read the post at mom-nos. i’ve been reading this woman’s blog for a couple years now, and she never ceases to amaze me. she truly deserves an Awesome Award.
We’ve also gotten help from Dr. Donovan, the psychiatrist who manages Bud’s medication. He has helped to tweak the dosage and timing of Bud’s medications [...]

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You’re not weird – you are true to yourself and your needs

my supervisor knows the issues i have working in this crowded environment. yesterday he sent me this email:
My wife, who is very sensitive to noise, uses these all the time and swears by them. They are expensive, but have been a life-saver for us:
http://www.bose.com/…
She uses the Quiet Comfort 2. They can plug in to [...]

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Please violate only one stereotype at a time.

yet again, another extremely well-written and well-put post over at ballastexistenz:
And what I’ve found, is that people prefer people to violate as few stereotypes as possible at once. If you can violate no stereotypes or only one stereotype, that is great, that is expected and mostly acceptable. The more stereotypes you violate, the more trouble [...]

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aane newsletter from fall 2003, two good articles

this is a 2003 newsletter from an organization i’ve mentioned before, the asperger’s association of new england. the first article in this newsletter is about a guy with asperger’s syndrome’s rather successful, i’m glad to hear, forays into the adult working world:
David finds that disclosure is “easily the single biggest issue I have to [...]

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teacher prefers to teach kids with autism. woohoo.

this a beautiful post: How Aspergery are You?
I’m currently making a career move from teaching kids with a range of disabilities to exclusively teaching kids with autism. Why? While other teachers seem to get exasperated by their students with Asperger’s and autism, I get along with them easily. I really don’t get the [...]

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