“If you go to the United States, I won’t be able to take care of you when you get sick.” That’s what my mom said during my senior year in high school while filling out…
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Rising United in CSD: Perspectives from AAPI CSD Students
“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…
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…