The short answer? No, vaccines don't cause autism. But why do some people believe this? Most of the public information linking vaccines to autism stems from a study published in 1998. But to even understand why this study was completed, you also have to know about a group of anti-vaccination parents that were pushing for [...]
Many years ago, I worked on a little unpaid side hustle called The Committed Project. Dedicated to supporting professionals in higher education with mental illness, we sought out stories from all sorts of folks to better tell this story and eradicate stigma. One of the posts that we had come in was from a professor [...]
Earlier this week, we attended college orientation for our son as a family. Many schools also offer a parent/supporter orientation to ready parents for this transition. This is what my partner and I attended while our son went to his part of the program. For anyone who hasn't been to a college orientation, the goal [...]
As someone who wasn’t diagnosed with autism until her mid-40s, I often struggle with what it means for me to unmask. What if people don’t like who I am without masking? How even am I masking? These are just a few of the questions that someone who is a late-diagnosed autistic person must battle with [...]
A little over a year ago, I started to wonder if maybe I was autistic. Not one to let things go (also known as hyperfixation), my exploration led me to reading scientific books about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and memoirs by autistic people, listening to various podcasts about autism, and looking up resources and information [...]
Alternate title: I'm just a girl, standing in front of her work, asking you to be more neurodivergent-friendly. As I have been learning about my own neurodivergence (with both autism and ADHD), I have been slowly but surely peeling back all the things that I have done to make it in a world that is [...]
