Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmental activist, has shown that being different is a gift.
Watch Greta’s impacting Ted talk on climate change:
Many people with autism still face cruel treatment and policies too often intend to erase their difference to make them blend in and conform . Read Ian Birrell’s article from The Guardian
Thirty years ago, hardly anybody knew about autism. “Rain Man” was one of the first movies to depict autism on screen. On one hand, it contributed greatly to raising people’s awareness of the condition. On the other hand, it also contributed to spreading the false knowledge that all autistic people are somehow savants in one specific area, and behave in a particular way. But as writer Chris Bonnello says, the dilemma is that “no representation of autism is ever going to satisfy everyone, because it’s such a wide spectrum and the people within it are so enormously different to each other, including in how their autism affects them.”
Read article from “The Guardian” here.
Should a child with autism disclose his/her condition in school? There is no straight answer to this question. On one side there are clear benefits of coming out in the open to generate understanding and acceptance. But on the other, there is the fear of being labelled and only seen as “the child with autism”. Raising autism awareness within school is key to promote peer acceptance and helping these students talk openly about their condition.
This video shows Holly, a young student on the spectrum, who took the step of telling everyone in her school.
Imagine a world where you have no choice but to follow rules that you don’t know exist until you get them wrong, and rules which have no logical function… The author of this article talks about ways to approach students on the spectrum dealing with anxiety issues.
We know so much more about autism now but the idea that all people with autism are disordered, impaired, or somehow “lesser” is one that still needs to be challenged.
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