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Awareness v. Acceptance: Does It Matter? Article for PACLA Magazine @Aut_Love_Accept

I wrote the following article for the very first edition of  Parenting Autistic Children with Love & Acceptance (PACLA) Magazine! If you haven’t visited PACLA before, head over and check them out on Facebook and follow them on Twitter @Aut_Love_Accept. Being April, Autism Awareness ACCEPTANCE month, I thought I would share a little more on the subject, […]

S.R. Salas for @KateWinsletGHF “Awareness to Acceptance: It’s A Process”

When I was asked to write a piece for Kate Winslet’s Golden Hat Foundation I was beside myself. When I learned it would be for April – Autism Awareness ACCEPTANCE month – I experienced a non-verbal moment. Seriously.  I recently began following @KateWinsletGHF on Twitter because I liked what I was seeing: Messages of #posAutivity and […]

REFORM or EXPIRE: Either Way, #StopCombatingMe

Many of you may or may not know the Combating Autism Act (CAA) is up for re-authorization this September. The CAA was put into place to provide funding to ‘combat’ autism and while the language within the law suggests that it should include research into support services, the spending priorities of the law are identification and […]

LOVE not Fear: It’s A Choice

This piece is for the #BoycottAutismSpeaks (boycottautismspeaks.com) “Love not Fear” flashblog, and was a really hard post for me to write. It’s full of questions, a couple I can’t quite answer, and it’s filled with love, which is such an enormous thing I find it extremely difficult to write about. So, what you’re reading now is […]