The water I want to well is the deep language making meaning that deepens the way we think about autistic perception. The well is the way we rapaciously answer the way that neurotypicality speaks about arrangement of art attention and autistic importance that people don’t really want and I think that the water is required for easy language and should not sta…
One day, according to the Ancient Greek author Xenophon, the hero Hercules “went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering”. This book explores what happened here and how and why it can resonate with autistic young people. The book presents a set of ten lessons, each dealing with an aspect of what happened when Hercules entered the quiet place, met two women (or goddesses, or personifications…
One can follow an imaginary speck in the air, trusting that there will be a return. I can travel the white ice-smeared poles of this earth if necessary, sailing a solitary ship — trust, without being lost, led by a mere point. I can jump from one floe to another floe, a pilgrim of snow carrying a flag to plant wherever the air molecule rests, knowing…