By Maureen Seaberg — 2015
Pioneering therapist Dr. Judith Orloff counsels the highly empathic.
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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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“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.
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Ableism centers around the notion that people with disabilities are imperfect and need fixing.
It remains controversial—but it doesn’t have to be. We need to embrace both the neurodiversity model and the medical model to fully understand autism.
Filmmaker Evan Mead, who has Asperger’s, exposes struggles with dating and intimacy for people on the autism spectrum and runs events featuring speed dating and exploring facial expressions.
Just because you value neurological differences doesn’t mean you’re denying the reality of disabilities. This piece is in response to another Scientific American article by Simon Baron-Cohen.
Netflix and the BBC will work together, in an unprecedented move, to promote disabled creatives on and off screen.