Resilience, Resistance, and Making a Difference While Cultivating Autistic Joy and Living in Community

• By: Robert Naseef, PhD Clinical Psychologist, Author, and Parent of an Adult Autistic Son
• April 3rd, 2026
• autism advocacy, autistic joy, civil rights movement, community resilience, disability rights, Medicaid cuts, mutual aid, neurodiversity movement, Spring 2026 Issue
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you are not alone. Children are terrified of going to school. Families are being separated forcibly and deported. Peaceful protestors, including Renée Good and Alex Pretti, have been killed in the streets of Minneapolis. Warehouses are being converted into jails....