The Dignity of Risk: Lessons from Life, Business, and Parenting a Non-Speaker
I wasn’t always a risk-taker. In fact, for much of my early life, I gravitated toward safety, structure, and predictability. But sometime in my twenties, I came across a book that changed how I viewed risk entirely. I don’t even remember the title now, but its message hit me square in the chest: without risk, […]
Seizures and Survival: Always On Call
There’s a reason firefighters don’t work seven days a week. Why trauma surgeons and ER nurses rotate shifts. Why even first responders have protocols to rest and recover. Because staying in crisis mode 24/7 will burn out even the strongest human nervous system. Unless you’re a parent who an autistic and epileptic son. Then you […]
When ‘States’ Rights’ Threaten Disability Protections for Our Kids
Parents of kids with disabilities, especially those with non-speaking, minimally speaking, or unreliably speaking children, need to pay close attention to a federal lawsuit making waves right now. It’s about a rule change to the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and while the surface issue is the inclusion of gender dysphoria as […]
Reclaiming Enlightenment: ‘I Think, Therefore I Am’ in the Age of Inclusion
This foundational concept of Enlightenment thinking is often unacknowledged or misunderstood when it comes to certain groups, especially non-speakers and many autistic individuals.
