Autism & Aspergers Syndrome

• What is Autism? …a better explanation!
• Autism Awareness in Australia
• What is Asperger’s Syndrome?
• Explaining A.S. to Others
• Should You Explain the Diagnosis to the Child?
• Explaining the Diagnosis to the Child with Autism
• Aspergers Syndrome Explained for Children (Animated Video)
• Girls and Asperger’s Syndrome
• Strengths and Advantages of Being an Aspie

My ramblings (& reblogs) about Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome

30/06/2021 Prosopagnosia & Autism
09/05/2018 Now You Know…
04/12/2017 Empathy …it goes both ways!
02/11/2016 What your Asperger’s / #ActuallyAutistic friend probably wants you to know (reblogged from “the silent wave”)
07/07/2015 Empathizing with sensory and movement differences: moving toward sensitive understanding of autism
16/11/2014 Theory finds that individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome don’t lack empathy – in fact if anything they empathize too much (reblogged from “Seventhvoice”)
07/03/2013 High Functioning Autism in Females – Addressing the level of misdiagnosis reported by parents of daughters with Asperger’s Syndrome – High Functioning Autism (reblogged from “Seventhvoice” with my comments re my personal experience added)
02/04/2012 World Autism Awareness Day
09/11/2011 Autistics Speaking Day
06/12/2010 Kindred Spirits
08/10/2010 History of Autism …in a nutshell
12/07/2010 Autism Reality
09/05/2010 Happy Mother’s Day!
23/02/2010 Mary and Max
01/02/2010 A Vanishing Diagnosis?
31/08/2009 Different …it’s not so bad
31/08/2009 Through My Eyes
04/06/2009 Colours of the Week
16/01/2009 Prenatal Testing for Autism?
21/12/2008 Bittersweet Endings and New Beginnings
08/11/2008 Oops, Wrong Planet
02/10/2008 The Geek Syndrome
10/08/2008 Aspie Quiz
25/07/2008 Autistics Need Acceptance, Not Cure

Artwork above was drawn by Jenwytch, then digitally altered ~ Dualities in Balance.

Autism ~ Inside, Looking Out

(Websites and blogs by autistic authors/bloggers)

July 2017:  I received a message from Actually Autistic Blogs List — A list of blogs by Autistic people to say that my blog was included on their blogs list. 🙂 All the blogs below, which are ones I had come across in my own browsing and research from 2008, are probably on the “master” blog list referred to above, but I’ll leave my little list here anyway.

• A View From the Boundaries
• Abnormaldiversity
• Accepting Asperger’s Syndrome
• Asperger Adults
• Asperger’s Diary
• Aspergia
• Aspies for Freedom
• AutAdvo – Autistic Advocacy
• Autism Mom Rising
• Autistic Advocacy (Frank Klein)
• Caiseal Mor
• Carly’s Voice
• Demystifying Autism from the Inside Out
• Donna Williams (Blog)
• Donna Williams (Website)
• Dude I’m An Aspie
• I Autistic
• In the Beginning
• Incorrect Pleasures
• Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical
• Intangible Materiality
• Jim Sinclair’s Website
• Liane Holliday Willey (Aspie.com)
• Life of an Aspie Girl
• Life with Aspergers
• Mind Retrofit
• Mind Retrofit 7 – Poetry
• Neurocosmopolitanism
• Neurodiversity.com
• NTs Are Weird
• Pantheon
• Patrick Jasper Lee
• Reports from a Resident Alien
• Reswobian Dreaming
• Rethinking Autism
• Roger N Meyer
• Temple Grandin
• That Explains Everything
• The Cosmic Cauldron
• The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
• This Way of Life
• Unpegging Retro
• Unstrange Mind
• Wendy Lawson
• Woman with Asperger’s
• Wrong Planet

Autism ~ Outside, Looking In

(Autism/Aspergers Services – usually from a non-autistic person’s view of autism.)

• Asperger Services Australia
• Autism Asperger ACT
• Autism Assoc. of WA
• Autism Families (Forums)
• Autism Queensland
• Autism South Australia
• Autism Spectrum Australia – “Aspect” (NSW based)
• Autism Tasmania
• Autism Victoria
• The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
• Tony Attwood