by Rebecca Cavender | acceptance & inclusion, healing, love
It feels like our world has gone mad. As though there is a madness that has seeped through us that’s so deep and so wide, that it’s allowed people to justify all kinds of atrocities. We’ve forgotten we are family. Distant cousins. Kin. Each one of...
by Rebecca Cavender | autism writings |
“…I would like to be able to recognize anything I may be unconsciously doing that is harmful, that I have no idea about, because I wasn’t even aware of the issue in the first place.” –What someone recently wrote to me after saying she was inspired to learn...
by Rebecca Cavender | acceptance & inclusion, autism & girls, autism writings, debunking myths, no cure, no prevention |
I do not accept that society cannot change. Society constantly changes, albeit sometimes rather laboriously and slowly. I believe our societal views on autism—and on accepting others’ differences at large—will improve. I believe that each time we...
by Rebecca Cavender | acceptance & inclusion, autism writings
My autism revelation catapulted my liberation. It allowed me to begin understanding my story—the why behind, for most of my life, feeling different, unusual, and like I didn’t belong. This is a story many autistics, and non-autistics, share. It’s...
![[Poem] For Us Autistics: Take My Hand](https://rebeccacavender.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/daniel-lincoln-1118974-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
by Rebecca Cavender | acceptance & inclusion, autism writings, debunking myths, no cure, no prevention
The desert is blooming. The dead awakens: light upon wildflowers glistens sun through old waters— a return to home: The home within your cells. The home within your bones. The home that carries the cries of your ancestors, the blood of your lineage....
by Rebecca Cavender | acceptance & inclusion, autism & girls, autism writings, debunking myths, essays, no cure, no prevention
We don’t need to cure autism. Autism and those of us who are autistic don’t need to be pathologized. I don’t need or want my autism cured. I don’t need or want my daughter’s autism cured. What the autistic community wants and needs is acceptance....
