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Blog postIf you like photographing people and action, it's hard to think of a better venue than the Big E - the Eastern States Exposition Fair, which happens in West Springfield, MA over 17 days, encompassing the last two weekends of September and the first weekend of October.
I have photographed the Fair for 25 years, and in that time I've see the transition from black and white to color, from film to digital, and then from one generation of digital system to another. 2021 marked the fir -
Blog postIt has been 45 years since I first got the idea of writing things people would notice. The first things I wrote were descriptions of electronic circuits I had designed – how they worked and what they would do. I did not have the literary skills of an author, but I had technical competence and a decent command of language. Most of all, I had a gift for explaining things in ways others could understand.
I did not realize it at the time, but those first missiv -
Blog postDecember 13 - It’s hard to believe 2020 is coming to an end. In Decembers past I sometimes assembled photos of places I’d visited. Prior to the pandemic, I spent a dozen years on the road, sometimes traveling 120,000 air miles in a year. This January started like many others. We spoke at some events in Florida, and Cubby came along to visit the alligators at Wakulla and my aunt and uncle from Cairo, GA:
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Blog postThis is a complex subject, but I'll do my best to explain . . . .
Over the past 20 years we have made some progress understanding the biological underpinnings of autism, and by extension, ADHD and other related neurodevelopmental conditions. We have long known of links between autism and dysregulation of the immune system. One marker of that is abnormal cytokine levels found in some autistic people.[i]
We don’t know if the immune dysregulation leads to development of diff -
Blog postThis #coronavirus outbreak is causing a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety, especially among people with autism and other disabilities. Many of us have expressed fear that we may be seen as expendable and we are likely to be more at risk due to other medical complications.
As an autistic person the best thing I can offer by way of calming is some logic and reason, based on good facts.Our country's failure to expand testing has created the perception that there may be thousands -
Blog postNeurological diversity is a biological fact. Neurological function varies between individuals just like other human traits. The difference is that neurological diversity has gone unrecognized until now, while physical diversity has always been plain to see.
Human diversity emerges as a result of genetics and environment. There is a large heritable component to some neurotypes, just as body shape tends to run in families. But it’s not all genetics. Environmental factors also influence -
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Blog postEvery September I look forward to photographing the Big E - New England's state fair and carnival. The Fair draws about one and a half million people over its seventeen-day run, and I race to capture as much of the action as I can.
The Big E has run since 1917 at this location in West Springfield, Massachusetts. It was started as an agricultural fair, and still has a large agriculture component, but the biggest part is now family entertainment. There are horse jumping contests -
Blog postThis six minute video of my convocation talk at Landmark College really encapsulates my thinking on neurodiversity.
We can have disability diagnoses, but we do not have to live as disabled people, thereby internalizing the idea we are "less" than others. We can choose to live as neurodivergent people - using a term that springs from our own community - and recognize each of us has a mix of disability and exceptionality.
Watch the video and tell me what y -
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Blog postOver the past week I received a dozen letters from students who read Look Me in the Eye as part of English class in Southbury CT. At first I thought to answer them one by one, but now they're coming by the dozen and I thought I'd answer them all here.
You asked about my childhood pranks. Why did I do them, and how could I do such awful things? Two passages in the book seemed to stand out for a number of you. One was when my parents were taking us to a -
Blog postHumans seek relationships for all sorts of reasons: protection and mutual aid, employment, friendship, romance . . . It should not surprise anyone to read that people like to be with others who are like them. There are a million ways to define “like themselves,” and it may not even be a conscious choice, but there is no doubt that many communities of like-minded people exist, just as many like-minded people become friends or romantic partners.
Evolutionary psychologists hav -
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
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