Disability Literacy

So you say you are well-read, aye?!

You made it to the conclusion of nearly all of the NY Times best sellers? Oprah's book list?

How cool?

I love funding the arts!

I love participating in conversations about empowering narratives and soul-stirring metaphors! 

I love book discussions about identity politics, cultural memory, rites of passage, and motions of time!

I have a question for you: have you read a book about disabilities, or even autism, lately?

I just want to make sure that you don't sound like a complete dick at a party when someone mentions their autistic family member.

You don't want to be that one that says the proverbially awkward "I know of an autistic person. He seems fine. I mean he is thriving."

That will really stunt that conversation, making you sound real unread and uneducated,

making your conversational partner want to escape you via back-handspring.

Also, if you ever become that family member, you don't want to be that complete unread and uneducated dick who doesn't get it at a Christmas party. Eew! 

Just wanted to help you be the better you.

...now....if you will excuse me, I am going to go read a trashy love story, 'cause you know, mama likes to be literate in the nasty too!