Some people do different things or need different things from the average person. (Or the imaginary average person.) Other people have to de...

To me there are three ways of portraying disability in fiction--medical model, social model, and fake social model, with the first and the l...

Hello. I'm a person who attends college. I'm also a disabled person, oh my gosh. I was hoping to talk to you today about the subje...

Playing Cards at Boston Children's Hospital by Lisa Blumberg was linked in a blog I was looking at and it's a really good and impor...

An exploration of the concept of social skills, particularly (but not exclusively) as it relates to people with autism, victim-blaming, and ...

The classic example of impaired "social skills" in people with "Asperger's" is a person who constantly talks about t...

One time when I was making an earlier stage of this post , Fiona commented and defined social skills in the following way: I think social ...

This summer I had a camper named Stephen of whom I was very fond. Although Stephen was not very good at explaining what he wanted or needed,...

Before I start I should say that I'm not trying to write about what autism is and outright deny that there are social issues. I have in ...

When I was in eighth grade, my history teacher mentioned an interesting piece of trivia one day during class. "There's this disorde...

Hey, okay, so I just wanted to say something because I keep reading a lot of flamewars, which is probably a stupid thing for me to do 'c...

I know this sounds like it's going to be a really intense/hardcore post, however I'm actually about to take a nap so this is very sc...

Dave Hingsburger made a really good post about how he wanted a book that he couldn't reach from his wheelchair, and the bookstore emplo...

When it comes to ASD, the medical model is woefully inadequate.* According to the medical model, some really specific thing (like extra time...

Someone sent me Tim Page's piece about having Asperger's in the New Yorker. I read all of it and it kept my interest on one level b...

This is just messing around and may not be organized very well. But basically I'm thinking about the idea that if someone has a disabili...

Jason Stackhouse: There's a reason things are the way they are. Bill Compton: Yeah. It's called injustice. Terrible Hair Man, you wi...

I feel like I should add a subtitle to this blog since it ended up being mostly about one subject. But any description of what that subject ...

My post yesterday was supposed to be about something else, but I got distracted by the fact that in high school my homosexuality created ...

When I was in high school I was one of the only students who was openly gay. I was extremely sensitive to the idea that other girls might se...