On Sunday, October 10, I joined forces with a dozen individuals and protested the Autism Speaks Walk for Autism at Ohio State. We faced 18,000 walkers, several of whom screamed at us, berated us, tried to exact physical harm upon us. One walker had to be physically restrained by a friend and a walk official; [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about what Savannah wrote on passing a week back, especially this line: “We deny essential parts of ourselves in order to resemble ideals and stereotypes of our cultures [when we pass].” I am wondering what a day without passing would look like for me. It would likely be a day [...]
(ETA: This is me musing about not-so-happy childhood things. With metaphor.) How to tell whether it’s an anxiety attack, whether it’s an asthma attack, whether it’s a spiritual attack: Lesson one: It is always a spiritual attack. This is what a pastor tells me when I’m seven. We live in Lawrenceville, near a shallow creek [...]
On June 23, I attended the Nisonger Autism Institute, a day-long, invitation-only conference that focused on transition across the lifespan. I’ve been wanting to write on my experience there for some time now, but needed a month in order to cohere my thoughts (and to lower my, um, blood pressure). I should start off by [...]
Yay, a post! I miss writing in this blog. Hello, blog. I figure that a good post-hiatus post might involve what I’ve been up to lately that is non-dissertation — that is, teaching. This past quarter, I taught an undergraduate section of Intro to Disability Studies, the second time I’ve taught this course. And in [...]
