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50 Inspiring Autistic People of 2011
This is wrong. I will be ending the year with a series of posts that list 50 autistic people I found inspiring this year. Before beginning, I want to explain my reasons for doing so.My inspiration...
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50 Inspiring Autistic People of 2011: Celebrities
My introduction to this series is here.The idea of an autistic celebrity would once have been a joke. Each of these individuals has helped to alter that perception forever by gaining the world's...
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My introduction to this series is here.I already did my lists of the best autism YouTube videos of 2011 (here and here). The people in this post each used the medium this year to publish a series of...
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My introduction to this series is here.When we discuss autism and parenting, we usually refer to the experience of parenting autistic people. These people all talk about parenting from an autistic...
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50 Inspiring Autistic People of 2011: Athletes
My introduction to this series is here.Some autistic people, like me, are physically awkward. Others are superb athletes. These are two of the autistic athletes who inspired me this year.Clay on...
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My introduction to this series is here.Autistic people are funny. Not just funny-strange. Also funny-ha ha. Here are some of the ones who made me laugh hardest this year."I have Aspergers but I'm...
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50 Inspiring Autistic People of 2011: Activists
My introduction to this series is here.Many, many autistic people took action to improve the way we are perceived, to make us more safe, and to give us more opportunities this year. These are a few...
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My introduction to this series is here.Sometimes I consider music my primary language. I think that is true for many autistic people. No more words from me here then. I'll let the music speak for...
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50 Inspiring Autistic People of 2011: Writers
My introduction to this series is here. Many of the people who appear elsewhere on this list are also powerful and important writers, and there are many autistic writers whose words inspired me in...
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50 Inspiring Autistic People of 2011: Youth
In my introduction to this series, I said that one of its purposes was to make the case for my pride in my people:What I want to do more than anything else to show you that autism pride is not an...
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