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My Mind Is A Forest: An Autistic Wandering Through The Language Of Silence And The Poems Of Mary Oliver, Torri Blue

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

The autistic experience has been widely medicalized, pathologized, mischaracterized, and misunderstood. Through this series of essays, I attempt to paint an alternative picture of (an) autistic life—one not defined by deficits, but (at the risk of sounding cliché) differences—by re-storying autism through an Autistic Poetic.

Autistic Poetics, or the poetry of autistic existence, offers to our imagination a new way of relating to the world—alternative pictures of what it means to be human and all the possibilities therein. Autists, as human beings who often express being more at home with the earth-others and more-than-human world, can offer our writings as …

Beauty In The Gothic: Forms Of Autistic Aesthetics, Elinor Rowlands

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This article will explore how Divergent forms of autistic communication and expression, within an artistic context, convey an aesthetic that awakens otherworldly realms existing between the physical world and portals of invention. These otherworldly creations are often made manifest through modes of stimming.

For autistic artists who use stimming (repetitive motions and actions) in their artwork and texts, intuition plays a key role, and many, particularly female and non-binary, recognize the role Gothic also plays in their work.

This article will use Serres philosophy on intuition and definitions of the Gothic to show how autistic artists may use both in …

The Rainbow Spectrum, Archana Kadam

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This poem is written from the perspective of an autistic child; who is learning to use an emotional thermometer to recognize, communicate, and regulate basic feelings.

My Learning Circles, Archana Kadam

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This poem is written from the perspective of an autistic child who loves mathematical concepts. The poem attempts to explain his or her understanding of rules of social thinking.

Babble About Autism Talks Too Much, Adam J. Wolfond

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Two poems by Adam Wolfond, "How" and "Babble About Autism Talks Too Much" (2020) "language" autism differently, questioning the way neurotypicality asserts authority over the meaning and experiences of autistic people. Wolfond is a non-speaking writer who is the first and youngest poet to be published by poets.org. He is a public text-to-speech presenter, collaborator on academic projects, an artist who has previously exhibited in Toronto, Canada and has published two books of poetry with Unrestricted Interest. His interest lies in movement, relation, affect and language.

Visuals, Archana Kadam

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

The poem “Visuals” is written from the perspective of a child with Autism who is a visual learner and encourages us to see the world through his eyes.

Private Facebook Group, Aimee Chor

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

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The Moon Is Especially Full: Notes On Poetry, Teaching, Tests, And [Autistic] Intelligence, Chris Martin

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This essay explores the ways in which poetry can help autistic students utilize creative expression and develop tools for self-advocacy.

If I Was In Love With My Sugar Mama, Cullen Dunning

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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Carnivorous, Emily Ferrera

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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The First Time I Met Danny, Liv Baker

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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In Bio 325, Anne Livingston

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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Contemplative Thoughts About The Intimacy Of Physics, Ashley Benedict

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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Impermanence, Jennalyn Stull

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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Photosynthesis: A Process By Which, Emily Zerrenner

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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When It Rains, Water Pools Above The Cracks In The Sidewalk, Kyle Flannery

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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Is A 7-Year-Old Too Young For A Funeral?, Mikaela Westrick

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

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A Wood Comes Toward Dunsinane: The Synthesis Of Traditional And Constructivist Methodologies, Randall L. Kaplan

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Education professionals now favor Constructivist and project-based strategies for learning over Traditional methods, which include such frowned upon practices as rote memorization and recitation. The Constructivist approach is being taken to its natural apex by educators like Larry Rosenstock who have created Constructivist utopias such as High Tech High in San Diego, the school put under the microscope in the 2015 documentary film Most Likely to Succeed. Project-based, experiential units of study are effective, exciting, and edifying for both students and teachers. They promise to prepare students for the type of world they will inhabit, a world whose economy …