world autism awareness day

Autism Unveiled: six-week advocacy project culminating on World Autism Awareness Day

“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism,” Dr. Stephen Mark Shore Dates: February 18, 2015 – April 2,…

Greta Thunberg: I’m Very Proud to Be Autistic #WorldAutismAwarenessDay

Today Greta Thunberg posted the following on her Facebook page. Today is ‪#AutismAwarenessDay‬. At the age of 12 I was diagnosed with Asperger, a…

Reimagining a World of PEACE

The Art of Autism’s 6th Annual Poems and Art for Peace. Header art by Ansh Batra. Compiled by The Art of Autism in collaboration…

Father Matthew Schneider Navigating Life as Priest on the Autism Spectrum

“I have what’s kind of a stereotypical autistic memory for details and facts, which has been helpful in different ways as a priest.” Matthew…

A look back at the movie Rain Man and how our views of autism have changed

A look at a classic film’s depiction of autism and that developmental disability’s subsequent treatment three decades later By Nils Skudra I first watched…

A Celebration of the Autistic Mind on #AutisticPrideDay

‘’I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing…

A March Call for Action As We Celebrate Women’s History and Developmental Disability Awareness

As advocates we must embrace intersectionality in all we do because no movement’s issues are isolated issues. By Nicole LeBlanc As we celebrate Women’s…

An interview with Lamar Hardwick, The Autism Pastor

When I finished seminary as a young minister with autism I often felt excluded due to my lack of social skills and sensory issues….