Letting Go, Holding On: Life After Raising an Autistic Son

• By: Karen B. Mariscal, Esq. Mariscal Special Needs Law
• January 5th, 2026
• caregiver stress, emotional resilience, family caregiving, intellectual disabilities, parenting, PTSD symptoms, sensory regulation, special education, Winter 2026 Issue
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My war is mostly over, and I miss it terribly. Raising Billy, my son who has autism, was like going through a war, every day a battle. And now he is 33 and he is gone. Not completely gone -- he lives in a group home 10 miles away, and it only takes me 22 minutes to get there. But I no longer...

The Power of Accountability in Autism and Wellness

• By: Daniel Crofts, MA Arc GLOW
• April 4th, 2025
• actually autistic, agency, emotional resilience, inclusion, neurodiversity, responsibility, self-acceptance, self-criticism, social relationships, Spring 2025 Issue, wellness
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The right course of action in life is usually a mean between two extremes. For example, if I am a student who wants to do well in school, my path runs between the opposing extremes of not studying on the one hand and consistently pulling all-nighters with the books on the other. And if this...

Autistic Lived Experience: Compromised by Neuropsychological Malpractice

• By: Sam Farmer Neurodiversity Community Self-Advocate, Writer, Author, and Public Speaker
• April 4th, 2025
• ableism, actually autistic, diagnosis, emotional resilience, identity, late diagnosis, neurodiversity, self-advocacy, Spring 2025 Issue
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If the world were a rightly ordered place, then this story takes a very different turn than it did. Looking back on how it unfolded, the wrong that was committed against me, as hurtful as it was, is not surprising, considering all I have learned since then about the prevailing narrative around...