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Being an Adult on the Spectrum - Recalling my Childhood

My family has a lot of interesting stories to tell people about the younger me. That, in itself is not unusual. However, the stories always… I don’t know. I don’t resent my family for telling them…
Let's talk about Autism Awareness
Varying Degrees of Awareness

When most of what you do revolves around autism, you come to believe that everyone shares some kind of base level of understanding. At one-in-50, most everyone today at least knows somebody who cares for someone on the…
World Autism Awareness Day 2013

Today is World Autism Awareness Day. "The United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared 2 April as World Autism Awareness Day (A/RES/62/139) to highlight the need to help improve the lives of children and adu…
The Reason I Wear Blue

It's not about politics. It's not about Autism Speaks. It's not about awareness (just ask Jess over at Diary of a Mom). It's not about treatments. Or cures. Or not-cures. It's not about yesterday. Or tom…
In The Eye of the Beholder

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the dogs are frolicking on the lawn and today feels quite peaceful. It's unnerving! Why is everything and everyone so quiet and..what's this, actually quite..happy?
Autism Literally Bites!

I am usually so upbeat and positive about Autism, that sometimes I get on my own nerves. In all seriousness though, I feel it doesn't pay to sit around and dwell on the what if's and why us. I feel if I go through eve…
That One Thing

I’m very big one sharing our stories. I think that by doing so, we allow others to have a better understanding of what Autism means to us, both collectively and on an individual level. I love getting input fro…
The Difficulty of Explaining Autism

A Guest Post written by BsDad I realised something today about autism. I realised that despite spending the best part of a year immersing myself in all things autism, reading every book, blog and website about the subj…
Submit Your Stories for the Autism Book Project

My name is Laura Regan. I am the cousin of a much loved Autistic child and a long time supporter of autism research, awareness and support. I have a background in linguistics and psychology as the apply to child develo…