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Autistic

Passing: How to Play Normal

Posted on August 10, 2012March 19, 2023 by R. Larkin Taylor-Parker

I started playing tuba at twelve, but passing for non-autistic is my longest running show. It takes more practice to fake facial expressions than make a forty-pound horn play sixteenth notes.

Selfie of Jean, a white woman with long medium-brown hair, smiling. Background: a body of water and a city skyline.
Autism

Jean’s Adult Diagnosis Story

Posted on June 27, 2012April 28, 2022 by Jean Winegardner

I am very grateful to have this new piece of information about myself. I don’t consider my diagnosis to be an answer to all my life’s problems, nor do I consider it to be a deficit. What I see it as is a new lens to see my behavior through.

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Autism

I Don’t Know His Name, But His Face Rings a Bell

Posted on March 14, 2012November 2, 2022 by Allison Blazek

My particular form of prosopagnosia (facial blindness) includes inability to recognize faces and names.  For example, every year I dreaded our family reunion and the inevitable awkwardness of seeing cousins and aunts and uncles and having no idea what their names were.

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