Oh is THAT right.

When someone tells you their child is autistic, don’t tell them that you’re sorry.

Ask “What’s s/he like?”

Let the parent say “brilliant” or “funny” or “kind of a challenge these days.”

Ask “Does s/he have a special interest?”

Let the parent say “trains” or “baseball” or “elevators.”

There is a reason it’s called a spectrum (and not a continuum from “better” to “worse”). 

Every spectrum kid is different. Like any other kid is different.

Like any other kid, some days.

I went to my first Twitter meetup the week of WWDC 2008, where Scott Simpson quickly dubbed me “1,400-Word Blog Post Guy”.

• Meet the Wisenheimers: Twitter’s Comedy Underground (2008)

Three years later I’m attending as a developer for the first time. It’s likely the one point of reference people may have of me is last week’s 1,400-word blog post.

• So why MLKSHK? (2011)

Perhaps I should have had the title printed on my badge.

From the previous post.