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Bring Your Whole Self to Work! Hiding Disability at Work Is Damaging to Productivity

By Nancy Doyle — 2019

When disability isn’t disclosed, we create an invisible layer of additional work for the individual which will affect their productivity.

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Running Out of Spoons: Self Care When You Have a Disability

Despite what popular culture says, we all know that people with disabilities are not actually the same (ha!), and that what will work with self care with our disability won’t necessarily work for someone else’s.

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Meriah Nichols
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Dating Is Awkward—Even Without Asperger’s

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.

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Christopher Reynolds
2016
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Navigating Love and Autism

As they reach adulthood, the overarching quest of many in this first generation to be identified with Asperger syndrome is the same as many of their nonautistic peers: to find someone to love who will love them back.

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Amy Harmon
2011
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Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity

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.

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Aiyana Bailin
2019
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5 Simple Ways to Support Disability Activism

Disability activism is empowering. Keys to getting started are staying open, sharing the stage, working collaboratively, listening and learning, and being willing to ask for help to make it less scary.

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Andrew Pulrang
2021
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The Paralyzed World War II Veterans Who Invented Wheelchair Basketball

The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.

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David Davis
2020
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Unbroken, Wounded Warriors Overcome Injury to Find New Strength

More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.

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Mandy Oaklander, Erik Tanner (photography)
2015
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The Transition You Never Asked For: Finding Meaning after Losing Your Military Career to Disability

You can build back your life

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Meredith Mathis
2021
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NFTs By Disabled Creatives Breaking Moulds and Making Profits

It is no doubt that NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are changing the way we view, buy and sell art, but are they also having a hand in the way that we define Disability? The medium has opened up doors for artists who have previously been marginalized and restricted from getting rich off their own art.

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Keely Cat-Wells
2021
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Instagram Disabled Artist’s @metaverse Handle After Facebook Rebranded to Meta

Thea-Mai Baumann had used the account for more than a decade but it suddenly vanished, taking all her work with it.

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Maya Yang
2021
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