On Being Overwhelmed By Grocery Shopping While Autistic
Autistic brains can be in danger of overload while grocery shopping. When that happens autistics needs a quiet space—fast. But there are usually none in big stores.
Accessibility
April and Accommodations: Listen To What I Tell You!
Listen to me. Please. I went to therapy for countless hours over countless years to be able to identify and express my needs and now that I finally can, it seems like it doesn’t matter.
April and Accommodations: Accessible Health Care — Not By Phone!
Something that would make my life easier would be accessible virtual health care; in other
words, NOT by phone.
Please Stop Playing “Gotcha” With Autistic Accommodations
Pro tip: it’s fine to want to understand your autistic friends’ sensory and accommodations issues, etc., but please don’t frame it as a “Gotcha.”
We Asked An Epidemiologist: COVID-19 Vaccine Myths and Facts
“I like to remind people that health departments and institutions are not just the buildings: There’s mothers and fathers and uncles and aunts and brothers and sisters working there. And we have people who we care about, people who are from all walks of life. And we are doing it for them as well.”
How Autism Conferences Can Better Include and Respect Autistic People
With autistic people making it clear that they don’t like being ignored on autism issues, why are autistics still having to fight for recognition and validity at autism conferences?
Understanding Competing Accessibility Needs
Accessibility is too important for us to ignore just because it can be difficult or unpopular. We also can’t choose one group and decide to make everything accessible to them, and inaccessible to other people.