Many Autistic Girls Are Not Classified For Autism Because They Don’t Fit The Model – by the Child Mind Institute

This is a Stanford research backed article originally written by the Child Mind Institute. Essentially, this is about why is autism penetration seems higher in boys, it is because the behaviour of girls who are autistic is very different and they escape the common diagnosis. The link to the original article is here: https://childmind.org/article/autistic-girls-overlooked-undiagnosed-autism/ Autism …

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We just talk, we really don’t care about autism!

While we as a society, company, and individual really talk about "diversity", "inclusion", and blah blah. There is really no true sense of inclusion in the real world. The real world just doesn't care. Below is a picture of a mother and son. The son is 38 years old, non-verbal and heavily autistic. Now, just …

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Raising Autism – Acceptance, Understanding, and Love.

I've almost taken a mini-sabbatical since my last post. Hope you are all safe and doing fine. While we are all battling the Covid19 pandemic, I quietly took this time as an opportunity to spend time with my kid, Aarish. It is not every day that you can get some time with kids these days. …

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