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Overview of My Personal Development Into an Autistic Self-Advocate The 3 Cs and the Great Veto of AAC Leadership Qualifications

Downloads of all the documents listed in this video: My Path to Regaining My Independence Getting Autistic Aspie Off Public Assistance My Story AACs Recovery Approach to Autistic Self Improvement and Advocacy Everything Autistics Aspies Really Need to Know About Social Skills

  Session 1a: My Personal Social Successes (Jason Bunn-Parsons, CPSS) Session 1b: Getting Autistic Aspie Off Public Assistance – Abridged (Jason Bunn-Parsons, CPSS [Just the solution]) Getting Autistic Aspie Off Public Assistance (Jason Bunn-Parsons, CPSS [Unabridged version for those who are interested, but will not be used during the conference.  Assessing the problems in order to understand theContinue reading “Downloads of the 2019 Autistic Appreciation Conference”

Over the past couple of weeks, 2 different wives of Autistic husbands have contacted me to discuss the conflict that they have been having with their spouses. This isn’t news to be because there has always been much higher level of conflict between Autistics and non-Autistics. My intent is to have a balanced discussion aboutContinue reading “Conflicts Between Autistics and Non-Autistics”

My dissatisfactory experience with a doctor is the motivation for leading this discussion topic.

For those of you who have not seen one of my videos, I’ve been on SSDI since I got diagnosed with Autism/Asperger’s back in 2009, at the age of 40. I have since learned what I needed to know about myself during my school years and have since been trying to find someone who wouldContinue reading “I Finally Got A Job!”

As I mentioned in the attachment that I added to the end of the video of last month’s meeting, we didn’t finish all of the material due to the great dialog that was generated, as well as the fact that just about everyone had to leave early.  I also felt that I didn’t do asContinue reading “Autistic Social Skills”

  I’m putting the series of Autistic/Aspie Social Skills on hold because I’m in the process of changing venues.  I appreciate Ability 300 allowing us to use their facilities free of charge, but there has been a problem with people being able to read the PowerPoints due to design of the classroom.  So in June,Continue reading “Identifying the Needs and Assessing the Solutions of the Autism Community”

  Links affiliated with video:   PowerPoint Slides of presentation: brief-history-of-autism-public-version   “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact” (1943) [Slides 5 & 33]: https://simonsfoundation.s3.amazonaws.com/share/071207-leo-kanner-autistic-affective-contact.pdf   History of Blame (PBS) [Slides 14-15, 17 & 22]: http://www.pbs.org/pov/refrigeratormothers/fridge   Guide to the Richard Pollak Collection of Bruno Bettelheim Research Materials 1863-2006 (University of Chicago) [Slide 16]: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.POLLAKBETTELHEIM   PortlandContinue reading “Brief History of Autism”

  I’ve posted this video in which we discuss topics for 2017 because I thought it might give ideas for other groups across the world to discuss as well.