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Emma and Autism Acceptance Month

We’re featuring “Slice of Life” conversations with Autistics of all ages — kids through adults — throughout April’s Autism Acceptance Month Our goal is to help TPGA readers understand that autistic people are people who have interesting, complicated lives and who are as diverse and varied as any other population united by a label. We are the people in each other’s neighborhoods, and the more we know about each other — the more visible autistic people and children are — the more common autism acceptance will be. That is our hope. Emma‘s mom Ariane Zurcher writes, “Emma was unable to answer most of these questions. Of the few she did answer verbally or by typing, I have put in quotation marks. For the others I found a combination of photographs and audio to accompany the questions. I answered a couple of the questions with my own thoughts, which are not…