Essential reading! Tracy Thresher's December 17, 2010 self-advocacy blog entry: "Life is what people make it but without community it is dark and dismal. . . . The community begins with communication. Friends create safety for the expression of intelligent thoughts. The circle grows with every interaction until the community becomes educated in the presumption of competence. Read the entire blog entry here:
Wretches & Jabberers, www.wretchesandjabberers.org
“In Wretches & Jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future.” “Ultimately, Wretches and Jabberers is about the life-sustaining power of relationships - the personal connections that most of us “jabberers” thought were impossible for people with autism.”
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