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For Mothers Of Black Children With Disabilities, Living With Twice The Fear

Allison Norlian

Kim Kaiser’s son was 10 years old when she first spoke with him about the challenges he’d face as a black man with disabilities. It’s a conversation they’ve continued every day since, and it covers a little bit of everything. How should he act in public? Where should he put his hands? How should he respond if police stop him? What type of people should he avoid? In the days following George Floyd’s death, Kaiser was careful to speak with her son about that, too. Her son, now 14, had questio ..

Senior with autism wows crowd with graduation speech

Monica Hernandez

Waving enthusiastically in his cap and gown, Sef Scott walked on stage at Plano Senior High School's graduation. He knew that most people in his senior class would have never expected what he was about to do. Sef began to speak. "Unexpected. That is what I ..

Reluctant keepers of a brother with autism

Elizabeth Choi

Grace will get the pearls passed down from my grandmother. Her twin brother, Nick, will get the woodworking tools my husband, Dan, inherited from his grandfather. They will also inherit their brother Jeffrey. Jeffrey was 3 when his idiosyncrasies — his ..

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"You would always have my back": Brothers with autism navigate life together

Liyna Anwar

Brothers Russell, 28, and Remmick Wadsworth, 27, have autism. As kids, they had trouble with social interactions, so they often relied on each other for support during tough situations. Now, as the siblings navigate the working world, they're still looking out ..

Adults with autism deserve better than this

Alice Thomson

It’s hard not to love Lauri Love. When I interviewed him a year ago he arrived at King’s Cross nearly two hours late, having taken a train from Cambridge in the wrong direction, dragging a shopping trolley for his vast speakers, wearing a bobble hat and sh ..

What dating an autistic man is like

Matthew Rozsa

When you have an invisible disability, the first challenge is getting other people to believe you — to encourage them to express empathy for someone else. After that, though, you need to learn to listen to how your disability may negatively impact them — t ..

Brotherly love beyond words

Matt Hayes

The cameras won't follow his every move, and the broadcast team won't talk incessantly about his NFL future. They won't gush over an All-American season or constantly replay Heisman moments or embarrassing antics. DaeSean Hamilton will just play football fo ..

Father and son with autism connect through drawing and art

Lindsay Richardson

For the first few years of his life, Ellis Goldsmith was silent. His parents thought he was “acting deaf”—closed off and unresponsive, unable to connect with those in his immediate circle, Ellis was not developing at the same rate as other children i ..

Tennis player with autism slices up the competition

Natalie Angley

Brittany Tagliareni is not your typical tennis player. Before a match, she needs help tying her shoes and putting her hair in a ponytail. But none of that matters once she steps on the court. The sport has opened up a whole new world for the 26-year-old ..

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"Perfectly Normal": Autism though a lens

Eli Gottlieb

At the halfway point of “Perfectly Normal,” the artful short documentary about a man with Asperger’s syndrome, there is a rare filmic experience of the sensory overload of autism. For about a minute, as Jordan, the articulate middle-aged subject of th ..

The hidden link between autism and addiction

Maia Szalavitz

Shane Stoner’s addiction began in 2008. He lost a factory job, his parents divorced, his father died—and then a relative introduced him to heroin. “I felt like heroin gave me confidence,” Stoner says. “I could get out of bed in the morning and do the ..

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