By Melissa Guida-Richards — 2021
My parents successfully passed me off as a dark-skinned Italian for 19 years of my life.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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Brain differences such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia are not something to be cured, but something to be embraced as part of human diversity.
A generation of parents are revealing some advantages of the condition, even when their children don’t share the diagnosis.
An autism diagnosis affects the whole family. Explore ways to help parents, siblings, and extended family to live well with and support an autistic family member.
Conceptions of identities are complex. We have a number of identities that manifest themselves in different environments or as composite forms of background experience. So, do neurodiverse conditions like autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and bipolar really comprise a part of a person’s identity?
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Having ASD increases the risk of depression in teens, but effective treatments are available
When a medication is being evaluated to modify the behavior of a person with autism, one must assess the risks versus the benefits.