Emma Foster: What I Felt After Being Diagnosed at 20 and Other Poems
byWhat I Felt After Being Diagnosed at 20 Potential Energy, Infinite And soft, Rolling Clear waves Of starry Blossoms. Steadily Growing Like iron On…
Autism diagnosis
But You Don’t Look Autistic!
byBy Connor Long-Johnson My story begins when I was first diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in early 2017. I naturally both needed and wanted to…
How I found out I was autistic
byBy Baylie Nixon Since my first post to “The Art of Autism,” I was requested to write another article about how I was diagnosed…
Pity Party: My emotions after my son was diagnosed
by3rd in the new series on the Art of Autism titled ‘Happy Sawyer’ By Nikki Mann It’s like this: The build up to diagnosis…
A mother’s letter to her three-year old who was diagnosed today with #autism
byTell me about the colors only you can see. Scarlett was diagnosed with autism today. They say a diagnosis of autism is given every…
A Physician speaks: What Physicians can learn from the #neurodiversity movement
by…in our daily communication with patients and families, how often do we, as physicians, inadvertently promote negative stereotypes, diminish our patients’ self-worth, or portray…
Is autism contagious? Questions students ask.
byby Debra Muzikar “Does Kevin know he’s autistic?” Keri Bowers asked me eleven years ago. “Kevin is nine years old,” I said. “I don’t…