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When your child get an autism diagnosis: Here are 13 next steps for parents that I WISH someone had told me at the time! A thread, drawn from the @thinkingautism

Let’s talk about Why No Autistic Child Should Be in ABA Therapy. I am coming at this from the perspective of a parent whose autistic son is an older teen.

Let’s talk about autism, parenting, and victimhood. Specifically, how the constant negative media barrage about autism can affect parents of autistic kids, & when the dominant message is how awful

I think it should be OK to write about our autistic kids. I do. Because parents who aren't autistic themselves—or who are new to autism—need parent role models who do

Sadly, most writing from parents about autistic kids is not only awful, but self-defeating: If you publicly write smack about your kids, then it is hypocritical to complain when other

Today I want to talk about how ‘Autism Warrior Parents’ Harm Autistic Kids. These thoughts are from an evergreen article I wrote for the dearly departed Establishment: https://medium.com/the-establishment/how-autism-warrior-parents-harm

As the parent of a high-support autistic young adult, what do I want for my son’s future & from society? I want other people accepting my son on his terms,

Autism versus Face Masks and Maskholes: A thread about why you shouldn't jump to conclusions about people who don’t wear masks, and what people who can’t wear masks—like my autistic

You know what? Let’s make this a thread. I’m going to talk about the four most common fallacies in parent writing about autistic kids, and why they are hooey. The

“My son isn’t wearing a mask. He’s not being difficult; he’s being autistic. His neurology makes him more sensitive than other people to touch & texture, & he cannot bear

Autism research is mostly failing my teenage son & his autistic community. Saying something so forthright may seem harsh, but this is the Greta Thunberg era—& we’re now telling people

My #Autistic Son Needs 24/7 Support. And That's OK.We have a good life, because we stopped buying into mainstream notions about what happy families look like. This is going to