Selected Blogs, Articles, Videos and Interviews
blog Posts and articles
Autistic Lived Experience: Unable to Be There for a Friend in Need
Autistic Lived Experience: Life Magazine Labeled Me “A Bright Child Who Can’t Learn”
Autistic Lived Experience: Remembering When I Publicly Revealed My Autism While Eulogizing My Mother
Finding Out at 40: A Retrospective
An Autistic's Vision for Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy
Autistic Lived Experience: Motivated by Fear, Guided by Conscience
A Late Diagnosis, Questions Answered, and Self-Acceptance
As featured on Thrive Global: Navigating Healthcare Through My Autistic Lens
As featured on Thrive Global: Tips for Parents of Kids on the Autism Spectrum
As featured on The Hill.com: Coronavirus and Social Distancing Through an Autistic Lens
As featured on The Hill.com: George Floyd, Justice and Equality Through an Autistic Lens
As featured on The Hill.com: Celebrating Neurodiversity in the Workplace: The Dell Example
As featured on The Hill.com: Law Enforcement’s Efforts at Greater Autism Awareness
As featured on Thrive Global: My Hopes for the Autism Spectrum Community in 2021
As featured on The Hill: Shaping the World for Neurological Difference
I own my learning difference and my autism…thank you, Mom
The Power in Sharing Lived Experiences, Through an Autistic Lens
Why the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Is So Distressing to This Autistic Man
An Autistic’s Vision for Lasting and Successful Workplace Neurodiversity
I rejected SAT accommodations to avoid a label I didn’t like — disability
What I Would Tell My Younger, Not Yet Diagnosed Autistic Self
Autistic Lived Experience: When I Learned that Helen Keller Believed in Eugenics
Why Didn’t My Pre-Diagnosis Clinicians Bring Up the Possibility of Autism?
Autistic Lived Experience: The Day I Stayed Home Rather Than Visit My Grandmother
Autistic Lived Experience: A Parking Spot, Humiliation, an Emotional Scar and Eventual Forgiveness
As featured on The Hill.com: Activism and Unification on World Autism Awareness Day
As featured on The Hill: Coping with Insurrection, Through an Autistic Lens
As featured on The Hill: Too Much Racial Animus in the News Lately - an Autistic’s Perspective
As featured on The Hill: ‘Autistic Person’ and ‘Person with Autism’ Are Not One and the Same
As featured on The Hill: What Liz Cheney's Fall Means to a Bullied Autistic Man
As featured on The Hill: Race Relations and Empathy, Through a White Autistic Lens
As featured on The Hill: Google, Stanford Are Teaming Up to Cultivate Greater Neurodiversity in the High Tech Workplace
Electric Shock “Treatment”, Today, in America, on People with Developmental Disabilities
Five Tips for Autistic Parents from This Autistic Parent
As featured on The Hill: Two key predictions around special education for 2022
Autism, Masking, and Sense of Self
Researchers Are Using Prenatal Brain Images to Screen for Autism In Utero
Autistic Lived Experience: Coping with Unrequited Love
Autistic Lived Experience: A Transformation in How I Feel About My Own Disability
Autistic Lived Experience: The Challenge I Faced as an Orchestral Conductor
Autistic Lived Experience: The Night I Walked Becky Back to Her Dormitory
From Stigma to Acceptance: Insights from a Concerned Autistic Self-Advocate
Autistic Lived Experience: Conquering Internalized Ableism
The Food & Drug Administration, Electric Shock Devices and My Impassioned Plea
Autistic Lived Experience: Heartbreak During a Support Group Meeting
Autistic Lived Experience: A Song Request at a High School Dance That Backfired
Autistic Personal Philosophy: On the Subject of Violence
What Neurodiversity Means to This Late-Identified Autistic Adult
podcasts, Videos and Interviews
Coaching Corner: Small Steps, Big Changes: AANE community member Sam Farmer shares his insight as a father with Asperger's parenting a child on the autism spectrum, and focuses on the importance of small steps to create big changes. Sam is a frequent blog contributor and conference speaker for AANE.
First-Person Account: Dating Challenges with an Asperger Profile: As an individual with an Asperger profile, AANE community member Sam Farmer reflects on some of the communication challenges he faced while he was dating and how he learned to become more aware.
Self-Esteem and Our Expectations of Others: Self-esteem continues to be an important topic for those on the autism spectrum. AANE community member Sam Farmer reflects on the way in which his expectations of others have shifted over the years and how this positive change has helped strengthen his self-esteem.
“The Truth About Music” podcast with Adam Cole, 9/13/2023. Discussion topics include music, different ways to look at autism and disability (the medical model vs. the social model), my long journey towards self-love, the differences between how I dealt with my early-diagnosed learning disability and my late-identified autism, how I fared during my college years as an unidentified autistic and then some.
“Autism in the Workplace” author talk with the Transitions Life Center, 4/27/21
Autism Weekly “Bullying and Autism” Podcast 9/17/21
Autism Weekly “Tips for Workplace Success” Podcast: 11/12/21
Chelmsford Public Library author talk: “Compelling Questions: Why Label Autism a Disability?”
Autism Weekly “Autistic Perspective: Masking and Self-Awareness” Podcast: 5/12/22
Thru Autistic Eyes Podcast: A Different View of the Disability Label