S.R. Salas's Blog

Acceptance, Love, and Self-care: A Work in Progress #AutismPositivity2015

Love and Acceptance. Self-Care? Well… I’m Working On It When we began planning this year’s flash blog I was happy to see that love and acceptance were topping the list, and rightly so. Then the idea of self-care was added and I almost didn’t contribute. How could I? I don’t know the first thing about […]

#AutismAcceptance: Finding Freedom in Autistic Parenting

Set Them Free I’ve always loved the saying, “If you love someone, set them free.” I used to relate it to heartbreak, which gives it a tinge of sadness but now, for me, there is another way to see it and that is the way in which I use it for myself as an individual […]

Stubborn Love

When I began this blog more than two years ago I was posting four times a week. For those of you who follow me (thank you, thank you) I have been struggling for some time to post at least once a month. I’ve apologized time and again for leaving you for so long, as the […]

On Being A MOM | 2015 Day of Mourning #DDoM2015

“Mourn for the dead, fight like Hell for the living” – Mary Harris “Mother” Jones I was asked to write a piece for the Bay Area Day of Mourning 2015,  one of many vigil sites for the 2015 Day of Mourning:  “In the past five years, over seventy people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents.” – via […]

Why Acceptance Is So Damned Hard

* Image: “Change the world Not your Autistic child” via the awesome Parenting Autistic Children with Love and Acceptance (PACLA).  If you are not familiar with PACLA, get familiar with them!   Forgive my absence, but the end of 2014/ beginning of 2015 has been difficult and I am sure you and I will visit these things over the next […]

Learning to be Autistic

“Autism Pride” sidewalk art courtesy of Leah Kelley of Thirty Days of Autism and Bella while we were in Philly last Spring!  Learning to be Autistic That sounds funny, doesn’t it? I hear all the time about people learning to NOT be Autistic (i.e. being forced through therapies to not “behave” autistically). I’ve yet to hear about anyone […]

Advocacy in HER Words

  I’m not the type of person who claims to be right all the time (or even half the time), nor do I brag about my accomplishments. Knowing I’m right about something is good enough for me, no need to announce it. However, there are exceptions to most rules, and today it is with much […]

“EIGHT… THE MAGIC NUMBER IS EIGHT” S.R. Salas post for @squagdotcom

  The following post was written especially for Squag!  What Is Squag? “SquagTM [skwag] is a curated, online experience for kids on the autism spectrum (and their siblings!) that allows them to initiate, explore, and self-discover. Our SquagpadsTM give parents an opportunity to learn about their kids and give kids a new way to learn about themselves, making screen time more meaningful.” […]

PRESS RELEASE: Disability Visibility Project @DisVisibility

I am so happy to be named the 60th Media Partner of the Disability Visibility Project! If you haven’t heard of it (yet) you must check it out ASAP! Below is a press release and I ask that you please join me in spreading the news far and wide. This is an amazing project dedicated to… “Recording Disability History, One Story at […]

On Being An Empath

Conscious v. Subconscious I’d like to apologize for not being here like I (had hoped to? promised myself I would be?). Sometimes it’s hard to just “be,” you know? Alanis Morrissette said: “Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you…” And it does, doesn’t it? I’ve spent the last few years in a […]