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Attorney Woo and the Burden of Extraordinary

By Rachel

Rachel explains why she enjoys the current Netflix legal drama, especially its realistic portrayal of Autism.

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Social Discomfort Regarding Difficult Times

By Out-of-Sync Woman

Out-of-Sync Woman's blog focuses on how much discomfort she masks while engaging in social conventions like memorial services. She writes about the negative effects before, during, and after the event.

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Cord Cutting Conundrum (The Era of Online Subscriptions)

By Ziggie

Ziggie writes about how easy it is to end up paying the same price as cable for social media. He explains how all the social media platforms can add up fast and helpful ways to decrease your bill.

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The Administrative Roadblocks to Receiving Medical Care

By Miriam

Miriam writes about their experiences in seeking medical treatment. They talk about all the behind the scenes work that they needed to do before they could get medical services.

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A death close to home blog

By Out-of-Sync Woman

Out-of-Sync Woman writes about her feelings about a close friend's adult child's death. She also writes about how uncomfortable and awkward it is not knowing how to appropriately express herself on this occasion.

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Siblings

By Sarah Matincheck

Sarah shares her experiences being an older sister and how being a sister has helped her grow as a person. She writes about good times with her sister and also the times they had conflict.

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Invisible obstacles, the hurdles you never even knew where there.

By Rachel

Rachel explains her reasons and aspirations to live and work in another country. She also shares her experience with the unforeseen obstacles in her way to being hired to teach abroad.

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Get Checked Out: How a Small Pimple sent me to the ER.

By Ziggie

Ziggie, explains about his experience with a small health issue becoming a bigger problem. Ziggie writes about the importance of dealing with any health problem right away rather then waiting to see if it gets worse.

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What’s your quirk

By Sarah Matincheck

Sarah's June blog is on quirks. Sarah talks about how she relates to the word and doesn't see it the same way as most people. She explains how having quirks has made her life better and richer.

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Chicago Med – A Smart and Diverse Drama

By Ziggie

Check out what Ziggie thinks about Chicago Med, a medical drama. He shares his views on increasing diversity and realism in the way these characters are portrayed in the show.

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Welcome to our new blogger, Rachel

By Rachel

Welcome to our new blogger, Rachel! ASDNext is excited to include her insights as a young woman on the Autism Spectrum. In her introductory blog, Rachel writes about her life's successes and challenges, and shares that talking about her experiences as a self-advocate and her vision for the way she thinks things could improve, is a main goal for her as a blogger.

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Weighing options of being a parent

By Out-of-Sync Woman

In this blog, Out-Of-Sync Woman discusses her frustrations regarding lack of resources and support when deliberating on having a baby and her final conclusions

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What is a Mental Health Advance Directive? A Brief Overview.

By Ziggie

In this blog for May, Ziggie explains what a Mental Health Advance Directive is and why it's helpful to prepare this document ahead of time. He also writes about his own experience crafting this document for himself.

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A Beastly Change

By Sarah Matincheck

Sarah is inspired by Belle from the movie Beauty and the Beast as she embraces celebrating diversity and change.

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A Puzzling World with Infinite Possibilities

By Khylil

In this blog, Khylil talks about his journey to more independence and growth from childhood until adulthood.

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