What I’m eradicating, what I’m choosing…

   This is something many people in my community talk about ... whether it’s sharing/marketing their business in a way that feels aligned with their ethics, being told how often they have to post on social media or send emails, or how they’re meant to write...

STEP 1 CONTACT THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA. DEMAND A COMPLETE PARDON FOR MATTHEW   Call 1-804-786-2211 Press 1 to leave a voice message and demand an absolute pardon for Matthew. You will not speak to anyone.  (You can call from anywhere in the world, but may incur...

We are in a dance.  Each one of us.  You and I. Our families. Our communities. Our countries. We are partners. Yet, we forget this … time and time again.  We may appear to be on opposite sides of politics, of spirituality.  We may have different colors of skin.  We...

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 us. When we actually...

“...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 more...

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...

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...