Everyone who has anything to do with autism activism or other kinds of associated consciousness-raising tends to get steamrolled by April. N...

I've been trying to write a review of the new autism book In A Different Key and its media treatment for nearly two months. So here is a...

Writing from my phone, from Disneyland. Where our entire family of five visited, together, for the first time ... Ever. Because life is comp...

Not a great month. Happy to see it go away, and no encores, please. Though cool things got done this month; you can look at my Stuff I Did f...

Learning Speed Scrabble: Part of Mali's Grifter Training [image: Three white people playing Scrabble on a bright red table.] Go...

[Image: White teenage boy and mother, both wearing bathing suits, with the ocean and rocks of Cabo San Lucas in the background.] We ...

Low fat low sugar cupcakes -- that Leo graciously ate anyhow [image: yellow cupcakes with piped chocolate frosting.] Leo's 15th b...

Autism acceptance doesn't magically turn Leo's or my life into sugar-topped cakewalks, just so you know. (Allow me a smidge of irrit...

[image: white teen girl with long curly dark blonde hair holding up her new driver's license.] This kid is now a licensed driver. ...

The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) felt compelled to issue a statement debunking media myths linking autism and mental illness with ...

[image: black and white photo of a white teen boy holding the book NeuroTribes, in front of bookstore shelves.] You probably know, if y...