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My friend Karla Fisher is a Senior Program Engineering Manager at Intel, an autism educator, the General Manager of a professional sports team, the mother of two thriving adult children, and the owner of the excellent Facebook resource Karla’s ASD…
Source: Facebook I happened across this graphic on the Facebook page of an anti-vaccination group called the Vaccine Information Network (VINE). The page propagates the twin falsehoods that a) vaccines don’t work and b) vaccines are linked to rising autism…
I find it very painful to write about the work of Simon Baron-Cohen. I’ve done so extensively in the past, and this spring, I decided to take a break from it. But there is a passage in his latest book,…
Although I am not particularly religious anymore, one of the things that I have always loved about Jewish ritual is that it is not about petitioning God for what you want, but about impressing upon your own heart how you…
Trigger warning: Contains a quoted example of disability hate speech. I am finding it difficult to begin this piece. It’s not that I can’t find the words. When I’m writing, I can almost always find the words. It’s that what…
Abell, Frances, Frances Happe, and Uta Frith. “Do triangles play tricks? Attributions of mental states to animated shapes in normal and abnormal development.†Cognitive Development 15, no. 1 (January-March 2000): 1-16. doi: 10.1016/S0885-2014(00)00014-9. A study that attempts to measure Theory…
Rachel Cohen-RottenbergUnion Institute & UniversitySpring-Summer semester, 2012 Beginning with Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity — a masterful examination of the nature of stigma as a social construct — scholars and activists over…
The following is a revised version of a post I wrote for Journeys with Autism about the murder of four-year-old Daniel Corby. — Another autistic person has been murdered. This time, a four-year-old boy named Daniel Corby has been killed,…
The following is a reprint (with revisions) of a post I wrote for Journeys with Autism in April of 2011. — The March 31, 2011 issue of The New York Times includes a short review of the film Wretches and…
Source: Facebook This graphic came across my Facebook page in April. It took me some time to discern all the things about it that are problematic. At first, all I could see was a problem with the intent of the…