The Imperfect Reality of Accessibility
Rachel recently went to this year's Philadelphia Pride Festival to celebrate diversity. She was excited to participate but let down by some of the accessibility measures, or lack thereof, that were put into place. This experience taught her that it's hard to be a proper celebration of diversity and inclusion, if you’re still excluding people.
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The Importance of Water Safety
In this blog we learn about how easy it is to take water safety for granted. Out-of-Sync Woman recalls two times when she got in trouble while swimming. Much later she learned more about water safety and how to be smarter when engaging in water activities.
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Resilience in Your Career When You’re Neurodiverse
Anne shares four times she believes that being an undiagnosed Autistic/ADHD woman had effected her employment. She shares her frustrations when she was let go from her positions due to being neurodivergent. She has learned from these situations to be a more resilient person.
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Self-Advocacy
Thomas writes about his self advocacy for the adult Autism community. He writes about the hard work that is involved in expanding his self advocacy role within the larger autism community. He also share shares his motivations in his on going efforts.
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Cereal Bowls and Blogging
This blog is about how hard it can be to blog for other people. Trying new things can be overwhelming and stressful for everyone. We get to look over Penny's shoulder as she decides what to blog about in her second blog for ASDNext.
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My First Musical Play and Trip to Lancaster City
This blog explores the joy of trying something new and discovering you like it. Annie describes her trip with the Spectrum Friends Group of Greater Harrisburg to the Fulton Theater in Lancaster and how much fun she has checking out Lancaster City. Joining a group has made it easier for Annie to go to new places and try new things.
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Pride For You and Pride for Others
This blog celebrates the small changes that have added up to more acceptance of people who identify as LGBTQ+. Ziggie believes that pride is accepting yourself or others as they are without trying to change them.
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Meet Teresa!
Welcome to Teresa, one of our new bloggers, to ASDNext. In this blog we learn about the ups and downs of her life during the the past two years. Teresa describes what currently makes her life richer and more meaningful, sharing some life lessons she has learned thus far.
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Meet Thomas!
Welcome to our new blogger, Thomas, who shares how he got his autism diagnosis and how he has used that information to make his and other people‘s lives better. He is a well-known self-advocate and group leader for an autism support group in Pennsylvania. Click on the blog to learn more about Thomas.
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Meet Penny: Life, Cameras, Action!
We welcome Penny, a new blogger, to ASDNext. Penny blogs about feeling like the funny sidekick and having to mask who she was all the time. Penny writes “Emulating my peers was exhausting. I lost and suppressed my most authentic self to character portrayal. I questioned, who did I REALLY want to be?" She learns this is called masking and that she has autism. This understanding helped Penny decide to become the main character of her life story.
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Meet Annie!
We welcome Annie, a new blogger, to ASDNext. In this blog, we get to know Annie and learn a bit about her life. She shares what she likes to do and what she would like to learn more about. Check out this blog to learn more about our new blogger, Annie.
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Meet Anne!
In Anne’s first blog, she shares a bit about herself and her journey to an autism diagnosis. She also details how not having the correct diagnosis caused her some difficulties. Anne hopes by writing about her life, she can help others better understand themselves or an autistic loved one.
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Not conforming to Gender
This month to celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride month, Rachel blogs about her personal gender identity and what gender means to her in terms of being on the spectrum. She describes how her identity effects the way she dresses as well as the way she acts. She also writes about how she believes there is no right way to act like a woman and that no one should be put in a box just because society says so.
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Autism in Motion
Over the years, Out-of-Sync Woman has realized that she has more trouble with moving her body than her peers. However, it wasn't until she spent time hiking with friends that she saw how marked the differences were.
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Ready to learn more
Out-of-Sync-Woman blogs about her lack of knowledge of the LGBTQ community and wanting to learn more. She writes about how hard it can be to leave your comfort zone to interact with people you don't know.
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