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Rachel Cohen-RottenbergUnion Institute & UniversityFall-Winter semester, 2011-2012 The Theory of Mind (ToM) theory of autism posits that autistic people lack a core brain module that would enable them to understand the perspectives of other people and empathize with their thoughts,…
Rachel Cohen-RottenbergUnion Institute & UniversityFall-Winter semester, 2011-2012 When engaging the question of whether autistic people experience empathy, one finds a very wide gap between the conclusions of the most widely accepted research studies and the lived experiences of people with…
Living with a disability presents unique challenges that can impact daily life in profound ways. One often-overlooked struggle is maintaining a clean and organized home. For individuals with disabilities, the physical, mental, or emotional demands of housekeeping can feel overwhelming…
Ability Magazine. “Terminology Guidelines.†http://www.abilitymagazine.com/terminology.html. Accessed May 18, 2012. Adams, Rachel. Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Ahmed, Sarah. “Queer Feelings.†In The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, edited by Donald E.…
[I originally posted this piece to my old Journeys with Autism blog in April of 2012. The subject of activism and disability came up in a conversation today with several other disabled people, so I’m reposting the piece here as…
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time, but it’s taken me awhile to get enough distance on the whole issue to be able to write about it out of power rather than out of fear. As…
In the past few days, I’ve made a decision to separate myself completely from the autistic and autism communities. As many of you know, I’ve felt alienated from these communities for some time, but I had not ended my involvement…
I’m really gratified by how many people have shared my Neurotypical Awareness memes and all the great comments that these memes — you should pardon the expression — have inspired. Based on some of the comments I’ve seen over the…
Despite a number of clarifications in The New York Times and on ABC News, NBC News, and CNN that Asperger’s is not a predisposing factor for premeditated violence, the spurious association of Asperger’s with the violence in Newtown, CT is…
Last Friday, there was the infamous I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother piece. This Friday, there is an equally disgraceful piece called My brother is not Adam Lanza, but he could be, in which the author, under her own name, with…