“Where are you from?” “What are you?” “You don’t look Asian.” “You’re not really Asian.” “Asians don’t experience racism or struggle.” “Not to be racist, I just don’t want to get the virus.” “Just pick…
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Meet Lynn Coyle-Handy: Changing Careers After Two Decades
After nearly two decades as an early intervention child development specialist and former school social worker, Lynn Coyle-Handy’s changing careers and going back to college to become a school SLP—where she can shift her focus…
Curing Autism Would Erase Me: Discouraging Ableism, Encouraging Advocacy
As a child, the world seemed so alien to me. For some reason, everyone else appeared to have an internal rulebook of norms that I didn’t. Eye contact felt extremely uncomfortable, but it was so…
From “Imposter” to Insider: How I Found My Niche in Research Audiology
Science magazine defines imposter syndrome as “the feeling that one doesn’t belong or deserve their success, and that they will be discovered as a fraud.” When I first began my audiology career and discovered my…