All Are Welcome: Creating an Inclusive Festival

• By: Doug Blecher Autism Personal Coach
• January 10th, 2024
• accessibility features, accommodations, actually autistic, community, community inclusion, festivals, inclusive environment, inclusivity and accessibility, neurodivergent needs, neurodiversity, organizing, sensory spaces, Winter 2024 Issue
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Almost 11 years ago, I founded an organization, Autism Personal Coach, that provides coaching to autistic adults and teens to improve the quality of our lives. Within the first year of our existence, I realized that the lack of community was a glaring and alarming need for many of our clients. That...

Honoring My Limitations as an Autistic Entrepreneur

• By: Doug Blecher Autism Personal Coach
• January 2nd, 2023
• actually autistic, adult diagnosis, advocacy, burn out, communication differences, limitations, self-advocacy, sensory needs, Winter 2023 Issue
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I am an autistic entrepreneur. That is a sentence I couldn’t have uttered that long ago. As far as the entrepreneurship part goes, I’ve run a business that I founded in 2013 called Autism Personal Coach. With the help of so many others, my company has turned into a business that is stable and...