“Sometimes, people start to treat me differently, because they think I’m not paying attention,” she said. “Or [they don’t] understand some of the things that I do, like hand-flapping, when I’m overwhelmed.” --Xolie Morra Cogley, age 37, and owner of a dog grooming business who describes herself as “an autistic woman…
It can be easy – too easy—to assume that people on the spectrum prefer not to engage that much, if at all, with others. This is a very false assumption. Children and adults with autism want to connect and engage with others. They desire social relationships just as much as…
Autism PonderingsHe is a flighty bird.This bird of mine.He doesn’t seem to know how to copeEven when he’s not caged. Go, I say.This is your free time to fly. My bird shoots up to the ceiling,And then takes a sharp left,Squawking as he darts down,Dangerously low. Please Stop, my sweet bird.This isn’t safe.Why…
