Some of us on the newsgroup like to write, and our favourite subject is to write about our own experiences, both as ACs and as carers and parents to ACs. Those who have made The following people have individual pages with their poetry and/or links to their essays.

Contents:

1. Larry Arnold (AS)
   • On Being Different (essay)
     
   • The View from Inside (poem)
   • Strangers (poem)
   • I Will Not Walk in Your Track (poem)
2. Anna Hayward (AS & parent of 2 ASD children)
   • Words in Pictures (poem)
   a view of disability and difference.
   • What Have You Got Against Rainman?
     Criticism of the portrayal of autism in a popular movie
   • Everyone Does That! (essay)
     The difficulty of being tactful when you are AS
   • An Alien with Asperger's (article)
     Living with Asperger Syndrome.
   • Alien Parenting - A mother with Asperger's Syndrome
3. Dave Spicer (AS)
   • Autistic Identity
   • A Poem on Communication
4. Others
   • You Want to Take Away my Window by Joel (autistic)
   • Book: Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism - A Parent's Guide for Professionals by Mike Stanton (parent of AS)
     A simple overview of autistic spectrum disorders.

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