Emily

Emily Brooks is a Brooklyn, New York-based journalist who works with kids and teens with disabilities. She spends her free time playing in ways usually reserved for children and researching her various passions. You can see more of Emily’s writing at www.emilybrooks.com.

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Flirting with Danger: Dating Fails on the Autism Spectrum

“Satisfactory social responses are often more obvious to nonautistic individuals. My behavior can be misinterpreted as ludicrous excuses or just being a jerk, when I’m simply lacking social knowledge.”

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Jul 8, 2014

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Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me

“Social skills classes are particularly bad places to learn gender and sexuality lessons because they combine direct instruction with the neurotypical authority of telling us how to act. Socialization groups…

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Apr 16, 2014

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Body as a Second Language: Navigating Queer Girl Culture on the Autism Spectrum

“For me, reading and speaking body language is like communicating in any foreign language — I concentrate hard, stumble, and make embarrassing errors. Turns out other queer autistic people have…

Emily —

Jan 2, 2014

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Flirting with Danger: Dating Fails on the Autism Spectrum

Social Skills or Stereotypes? What My Autism Classes Didn’t Teach Me

Body as a Second Language: Navigating Queer Girl Culture on the Autism Spectrum