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/April is Autism Acceptance Month. Someone you know is autistic. I say this with confidence because an increasing number of autism diagnoses has been happening over in recent years. In 2022, (the latest year for which we have data) one in 31 children ages 8 and underwas diagnosed as autistic. This statistic does not take…
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I have two autistic daughters. They were diagnosed around the year 2000. When the diagnostician told us about autism (they were calling it Aspergers at the time), we, the parents were told two things: Your children need “social skills training” And Your children will “perseverate” That’s it. That was the entirety of the information we…
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You may have heard the term “high masking autistic” – what does this actually mean? Camouflaging covers a variety of ways that autistic folks attempt to hide their autism from allistics (non-autistics). Camouflaging/masking is particularly common among autistic women, whether AFAB or transgender, especially late diagnosed. Women have been culturally conditioned to be social more…
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Autistic Rabbi 