Autism Spectrum Disorder

To begin with, the phrase, “black and white thinking,” is pejorative. As used here, it implies, right from the start, that people on the spectrum are broken rather than different. This is similar to the way people in the 1950’s called African Americans, “darkies.” When called on doing this, most people would say they intended…

To begin with, I have Asperger’s. I am also a therapist for close to thirty years. For most of these years, I’ve sat with people with Asperger’s every day. In each case, when I first meet them, I tell the person the same thing; that despite what anyone has told you, you are not broken….