Hi! Welcome to the community. Autism Speaks should really go fuck themselves. They are very focused on the parents’ needs over the child’s, treat the ASD people as broken, damaged, needing to be changed. They did not have a single autistic person on their board. The single best resource I found (that leads me to…

Actually, I’m almost done reading Neurotribes, and autistics began calling us Normies and Mundanes all the way back in the late 50’s, with the rise of science fiction pulps and mail order science/ tech kits. They finally had a tribe that made sense to them, so we got a name that set us apart from them rather than…

For my son (and my husband) I’m just very open with people so there is no confusion or hurt feelings if their social cues don’t get the desired result. If I tell a parent at the park that my son is autistic while her kid is interacting with mine, they have almost always responded positively and asked questions that…

Oh man, that’s my son, too! The worst week on record was when he picked up butthole. At every store, at school, everywhere- it was an endless (comforting to him) loop of “damn it butthole”. He is 4.

Whoa I need to know about that. What? Nipple tint why?

You are just gorgeous! That is a great lip color, too.

It’s my favorite red of all time! I’m sloppy and always have my hands all over my face and it never smears. It does flake after awhile, but I just top it with some chapstick, wipe it off with a tissue, and reapply. There’s still color left, it just gets all the flakes off so it looks all fresh and new.

This is magic and I can’t wait to spread it around. I feel like even my bro-positive dude friends could absorb this.

Exactly. When I saw they were doing this my main worry was that this character would be developed around the parents of kids with autism instead of from the perspective of the ASD person. That happens entirely too often. Fingers crossed this character models how to be a good friend to someone on the spectrum and…

I choked on my coffee over Sex Toddlers. BRB I’m going to learn an instrument because this is my future band name.

Mandatory.

I do, and it works just as well as it did when I was a kid. Some of my kids’ friends will demand several different snack options and I offer to let them starve. They look like I asked to skin them alive and I kind of love it.

I LOVE Ms. Jessie’s pillow soft. It’s the best hair stuff I’ve ever tried. I have thick, wavy-to-curly hair that frizzes out pretty much no matter what. It doesn’t hurt that the dryer sheet smell is so, so good.

...Jim Webb? Is that you?

I just got back from an Of Monsters and Men show in Berkeley, so that was the last thing I listened to :) But I’ve been on a real Black Keys kick lately.

Fantastic piece. I had my daughter in college. Her father fought in court for visitation on my school days, so I assumed that is where she would be. He never once showed up. He never paid child support. I had no money to have her babysat somewhere else, and I desperately wanted to finish the semester. I brought her to…

Primarily white babies? Who need to be adopted (by good, white, Christian) families?

Great article, I will definitely be reading the book.

dismiss this nonsense please. Would if I could.

Because I’m still drinking my coffee this fine morning, my head is very nearly sideways trying to decide if you are joking or bottom of the barrel dumb.