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Meet Emily Paige Ballou, AWN Publications Committee & Online Content Moderator
Three things about me: I kind of wish I could live in the country. I love hiking, being outside, and waking up early. There are no bounds to my reading preferences. I’m as likely to be reading fiction...
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Tell Me About Your Autism Awareness Month
So, you got all excited about the Autism Awareness campaigns because you have an Autistic child – pardon me, child “with autism”, or a friend’s child “has autism”, or a friend of a friend knows someone...
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Autism Acceptance Month Event
Image description: Top left corner is logo for Autism Women’s Network, three whimsical/cartoon pink dragonflies with the letters AWN. Top right corner is logo for Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending...
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April 2015 Event a Success!
Saturday April 18th, Autism Women’s Network and The Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library hosted an Autism Acceptance Event in Stanwood, WA! Image is table in front of two windows. On top of...
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Acceptance, Love and Self-Care: #AutismPositivity2015
It is May. April is over, and after the dreadful “awareness” campaigns, after all the clueless people – in some cases plain hurtful people – giddy about blue lights, after Autism Speaks once again...
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AWN Statement on the Mass Shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...
AWN is shocked and filled with sorrow at the slaying of nine African-Americans — six of them women — at a Bible study meeting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Wednesday night....
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Allies: Are You Hurting Us Or Helping Us?
I’m tired. I’m tired of being told how I should and should not do activism. I’m tired of feeling like someone is always working against me when they claim to be working with me. My entire life I have...
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Why I #BoycottAutismSpeaks
I Boycott Autism Speaks because I am Autistic and I value my life. I Boycott Autism Speaks because I value all lives. Autism Speaks is a hate group that uses marketing strategies to deceive the public...
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Sharisa Joy Kochmeister: Give Her Back the Right to Communcate
She is a friend, a kindred soul. We both type to communicate, we both have other disabilities besides autism. Sharisa Joy Kochmeister is only a few years older than me. Image Description: text reads,...
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What Does Autism Speaks “Call For Unity” Mean?
In very few words: crisis management. But this is an informative post, so I will give the information. Neurotypical writer Steve Silberman just published his extensively researched book on, more...
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AWN Demands That Colorado Respect Sharisa Kochmeister’s Rights
AWN Demands That Colorado Respect Sharisa Kochmeister’s Rights to Self-Determination, to Live in the Community with Supports, and to Use Her Tools for Effective Communication. AWN holds the position...
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Documentary, SPECTRUM: A Story of the Mind
Image description: a profile view of a human head with multi-colored swirls and designs running through from the front to the back. Below the image is the word “Spectrum” Autism Women’s Network is...
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Stigma
First, I want to say this: I am against gun ownership. I don’t understand the appeal and I think guns should be regulated. Text reads: People who have mental illness are much less likely to commit...
View ArticleAWN Statement on False Claims
Autism Women’s Network wants to address a concern that has recently come to light. We are intentionally being broad in our statement and have chosen to not use personal names. If this causes you...
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Walk In My Shoes
Content warning: use of the R-word and murders of disabled people. (Please, read this post: http://timetolisten.blogspot.com/2013/09/here-try-on-some-of-my-shoes.html. What I write here is inspired –...
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Still Waiting
I don’t enjoy writing about Autism Speaks. There hasn’t been anything coming from the organization, since it was founded over 10 years ago, that makes me feel good. I write as a way to inform, as a way...
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Have Some ABA, or Else…
This was the message from someone who commented on an old article I wrote, about how I don’t like ABA. Not these exact words and this person, “Mary”, could be referring to any therapy. But because it...
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Your Autism Awareness Has Failed
It is almost April and it is the time of the year when Autistics have to remind the rest of the world that we are human beings, that we have human feelings. We need to do that because, more than in any...
View ArticleAWN Statement on Potential FDA Aversive Shock Therapy Ban
Autism Women’s Network (or AWN, a non-profit advocacy organization run by and for Autistic women and non-binary individuals,) has recently learned that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has...
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Autistic Conversion Therapy
A couple of weeks ago I saw a newspaper article with the headline: “Obama Calls For End To ‘Conversion’ Therapies For Gay And Transgender Youth”. The President was moved by the suicide of a 17-year old...
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