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 ...
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 ...
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/
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/
There is no other life than this one. It doesn’t matter what one believes regarding death and the after life, this is the one life we have, right here, right now. How will we live it? Wha...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/11/04/the-way-we-treat-others/
It’s taken me decades to figure out that whenever I am angry, fear is lurking. All kinds of people talk about the association between anger and fear, but it was not a thought I was able to a...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/05/06/where-theres-anger-theres-fear/
In the spirit of “Autism Awareness” month, I’ve decided to write at least a few posts this month devoted to the kind of “awareness” I would like to see more of. Awareness can be subje...
https://emmashopebook.com/2013/04/12/autism-awareness-not-fear/
There have been a number of Autistic people who through their writing or by meeting them have greatly influenced my thinking and radically changed how I view autism. Through their writing and/o...
It’s interesting to note that the word awareness, when paired with the verb “to be” as in – be aware, is easily visualized and thought of as, “beware” which dramatically changes the m...