My Neurodiverse Daughters

02/16/21 • 25 min

Daddy tends to be a pushover when the girls ask to learn. This time, they wanted to learn how the podcasting gear works. So, we set up the Zoom R16, three microphones, and off we went. This episode is the product of our 90 minutes of learning together.

The girls discuss sensory processing, ADHD, therapeutic supports, and school. The classroom "wiggle tables" still upset me. Public school wasn't always working for the girls.

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The girls discuss sensory processing, ADHD, therapeutic supports, and school. The classroom "wiggle tables" still upset me. Public school wasn't always working for the girls.

The Autistic Me:

Blog: https://www.tameri.com/autisticme/
Podcast: https://autisticme.libsyn.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autisticme/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/autisticme
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CSWyatt
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/autisticme

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Poet Peter Joseph Gloviczki

Peter Joseph Gloviczki is the author of three collections of poetry: the weight of dandelions (Salmon Poetry, 2019), American Paprika (Salmon Poetry, 2016) and Kicking Gravity (Salmon Poetry, 2013). His fourth collection, What's Left to the Imagination is Everything, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2023. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review and elsewhere.

Additional Links: https://youtu.be/PD2_uKaugPI - Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Mali - Taylor Mali, Slam Poet https://youtu.be/WKoVNqjNqtY - The Power of Poetry, with Helena Bonham Carter https://youtu.be/8cKDOGhghMU - Langston Hughes reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers http://www.djsavarese.com - David James Savarese, Autistic Poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver - Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize recipient

https://amzn.to/3cWHSnI - Autism and Representation on Amazon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dobyns - Novelist and Poet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Addonizio - Novelist and Poet

https://youtu.be/rTUWQyRMs7g - Philip Levine on The Writing Life https://the-art-of-autism.com/tag/autistic-poets/ - Art of Autism, Autistic Poets

https://www.salmonpoetry.com – Publisher Salmon Poetry http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/033/review_peter_joseph_gloviczki_baez.html

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Online Memorials, The Autism Memorial

Every year on March 1, the disability community gathers across the nation to remember disabled victims of filicide–disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers.

Filicide, the murder by one's parents, is one of the top three causes of death in children under five. It is one of the top five overall causes of death among all children and teens. Autistic children are particularly vulnerable, as parents use the “trauma” of having an autistic child as a legal defense.

Encounters with police can also be dangerous for autistics, especially autistic persons of color. Individuals with a mental illness, including autism, are 16 times more likely to die during an encounter with police, the highest of any group studied. From 2013 through 2015, data show half of the police encounter deaths were people with mental illnesses or cognitive differences.

Guest:

Peter Joseph Gloviczki (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Mass Communication, 2012) examines representation in the digital age. He is particularly interested in the ways that memorialization and mediated narration either hold space for or obscure voices that are most often othered or excluded in mediated discourses. He works as an associate professor of communication at Coker University. He also serves as an assistant editor of the Journal of Loss and Trauma (Taylor & Francis). Gloviczki is active in both the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Carolinas Communication Association (CCA). His first book is Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and his second book Mediated Narration in a Digital Age: Storying the Media Worldis forthcoming in the Frontiers of Narrative Series with University of Nebraska Press.