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Today is World Autism Awareness Day

Today is World Autism Awareness Day

World Autism Awareness Day was passed by the United Nations on 1 November 2007 and adopted on 18 December 2007.  The establishment of April 2nd as World Autism Awareness Day began in 2008.  Each World Autism Awareness Day has a theme that is determined by the UN, with 2020’s theme being “The Transition to Adulthood”. It seems difficult to think of anything other than the Coronavirus during this Covid-19 pandemic, but I think it is extremely important to acknowledge World Autism Awareness Day.  These uncertain times are causing higher levels of anxiety in an already anxiety-prone community.  Some autistic people...

April 01, 2020
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Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva

Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva

I thought I knew a lot about autism, including the history of autism.  But then someone I follow on Instagram brought an amazing woman to my attention.  Her name is Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva. We have been led to believe that autism was first described by American child psychiatrist of Austrian-Hungarian origin, Leo Kanner in 1943, and by Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger in 1944.  Kanner made clinical descriptions of 11 children that later were classified as having the classical early infantile autism.  Asperger described ‘autistic psychopathy’ in four boys that later took the name ‘Asperger Syndrome’.  The actual word ‘autistic’ was...

March 25, 2020
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Coronavirus and the Autism Community

Coronavirus and the Autism Community

So, I wasn’t going to write a post about Coronavirus, because that is literally all I read or hear about, and I’m sure everyone is in the same boat.  Instead, I sat down to write a post about this amazing woman, Grunya Efimovna Sukareva.  But all I could think about was how artificial it felt to force myself to write about something else, when Coronavirus is forefront in my mind.  Grunya will have to wait. Eh.  So here I go. While this pandemic is affecting everyone, it is affecting the autism community in a different way.  Yes, we all have...

March 19, 2020
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The Why of ND Renegade

The Why of ND Renegade

I have been thinking a lot lately about our business ND Renegade, and our reasons for doing it.  We started because we want a home-based business, as we homeschool the kids and we would like freedom to travel at some point in the future.  I decided on a brand that shines a light on neurodiversity, because we have two awesome neurodivergent kids, and I want to instill pride in them.  I also want to teach them how to run a business, and to have it be something they want to be invested in.  It was a niggling idea that I...

March 12, 2020
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Autism in the Workplace

Autism in the Workplace

Yesterday I asked another question to the autistics on Instagram.  I like asking questions this way, as I get honest answers from #actual autistics, and this is extremely helpful.  So, the question I posed is this: What are some ways to make the workplace more accommodating? Here are some of the answers:   “Have a really organized, shared method of planning (helps the whole staff too…)” “Sensory friendly environment, getting to work by yourself/with one person, not a full team” “Not having hot desking” “Less harsh lighting” “Allowing us to wear headphones” “Stop forcing us to socialize and start seeing...

March 05, 2020
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