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Fork and knife paired in the center of a white ceramic plate on a pink background.

How Extreme Diets Damage Autistic People

Food is an important part of life. Instead of using food as a “positive reinforcer,” or diets as part of a cure attempt, parents can use food and conversations about food to connect with their autistic children.

People using a ladder to climb over the Berlin Wall during its 1989 fall.

Autism and the Burden of Social Reciprocity

It’s time for non-autistics to accept their share of the burden of social reciprocity. It’s time to admit that the world has not been meeting us half-way. It’s time for people to learn to be more willing to accept others who are different from them.

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