Arresting Kindergarten Girls is Not the Answer

It is 2020 and we are arresting little girls and locking kids in closets at school because we expect them to behave, and to be two academic years ahead of where we were as kids. The United States is educated as a society but still, mental health and social-emotional development are threatened with pressures and

There is no summer vacation for working autism parents

But for our family, there are no vacations and trips as we juggle to pay full-time babysitters and take separate weeks off from work just to get by.

Our life is not fine, but it also isn’t over

I dusted myself off and got back up to fight for my kid. To give her the life she deserves. The life I have to fight for her to have because being sad about it isn’t the answer for me.