By Holly White — 2019
More insights on a positive side of a “disorder”
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Judy Singer is generally credited with the coinage of the word that became the banner for the last great social movement to emerge from the 20th century.
An inspiring new project aims to challenge how we think about autism, reframing it not as a disability but a difference. We’re often led to believe that intelligence is an objective measure. Dr. Sue Fletcher-Watson and Dr.
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Emotional Intelligence is my Aspergers special interest, yet despite this I still struggled with social skills for many years. In this video I share my journey including two key turning points that drastically accelerated my learning.
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Silver Award Winner in the 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards! Born with autism, both authors now famously live successful social lives. But their paths were very different. Temple's logical mind controlled her social behavior.