Self-Determination in Childhood
One of the most interesting discussions I’ve ever had in the autism world was at a conference I was involved in organizing back when I was an undergraduate student. We had organized some panels on different stages of autistic people’s experiences in life and we found that numerous people had particularly negative thoughts about their childhoods. In particular, they were talking about how relieved they were to be out of school. To provide a little background, this was not necessarily…