Let’s talk about needing green minds, eager thinking, waiting for butter to spread onto toast. Let’s talk about excitable pink ideas, ah-ha moments of lovely surprise filling the cavernous ...
Mom prepares me, but nothing can inoculate fear colored blue masked in lights, shining brightly. The terror seeps through. Awareness disguised as tolerance is not the same as love. An uneasy embr...
As shocked as I was that Emma brought up the topic of eugenics, it also seemed completely “expected” in the sense that Emma has frequently written about similar issues regarding parenting and...
My fabulous husband, Richard Long, has edited the videos of Ari’ Ne’eman’s and Emma Zurcher-Long’s presentation April 2nd at CoNGO (The Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Con...
https://emmashopebook.com/2014/04/16/the-youtube-video-of-ari-neeman-and-emma-zurcher-long/
Today I wanted to do a companion post to yesterday’s “Emma Discusses – Awareness“, with a post entitled, “Emma Discusses – Acceptance”. I love when Emma tells me to put something ...
“You thought my autism was hurting me and that you needed to remove it, but you did not understand that it is a neurological difference and fear caused you to behave with desperation.” ~ ...
Signal boosting. I love that phrase, it reminds me of a train yard. That’s the image that comes to mind when I write those two words. Signal boosting is when someone else shares a link or...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/12/06/autism-speaks-and-signal-boosting/
*A quick note on today’s flashblog ~ This is Autism. In response to Suzanne Wright’s upsetting and fear-inducing letter entitled A Call for Action a Flashblog has been organized to take ...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/11/18/this-is-autism-written-by-emma/
What follows is a guest post from my husband, Richard Long… After Ariane’s post What’s Wrong With Autism Speaks yesterday, I thought I’d throw my three cents in here. I didn’t know ANY...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/11/14/a-guest-post-from-richard-long/
When my daughter was diagnosed, we heard about Autism Speaks. Their message supported everything else we were reading and hearing about autism, so I didn’t spend much time thinking about what...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/11/13/whats-wrong-with-autism-speaks/