Emily Paige Ballou
@epballou.bsky.social
AEA stage manager, Old Millennial, stationery junkie, hiking, X-Files. Co-editor, "Sincerely, Your Autistic Child" from Beacon Press. chavisory.wordpress.com
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sen ossoff exercising the 2nd amendment right to bear arms
Democrats@democrats.org · last wk.78 days until we send Jon Ossoff back to the U.S. Senate 💙
But if you buy from Bookshop, your local bookstore ALSO gets a cut!
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople always ask "how do I buy your in a way that gets the most money in your pocket?" I get paid a flat rate. Buy it wherever. Direct www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-... Bookshop bookshop.org/p/books/manl... B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/manly-whil... Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/0316580996
illusionofcompetence.blogspot.com/2012/03/reme... A mother in Rhode Island has been accused of murdering her autistic young adult daughter recently, and the comments on the Facebook post about not judging parents in her position are like the last 15 years of advocacy never happened... 1/
Remembering George Hodgins
[I've been asked to put a disclaimer on this post letting people know that they can repost it as part of the blogaround on the subject of th...
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www.squidliterary.com/post/backyar... I've got a poem in SQUID Online this week! Enjoy!
Backyard Fireworks
Emily Paige Ballou is an old Millennial, Off-Broadway stage manager, hiker, and stationery junkie. She has work forthcoming in the Champagne Room and blogs at chavisory.wordpress.com.
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Ahem: Some ~personal news~ I am excited to announce that my second book, "Manly While Stimming: Autism and the Myth of the Masculine Ideal," is available for pre-order via Little Brown. Pre-order below. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eric-...
Manly While Stimming
Unmasking Autism meets Notes on Being a Man in this one-of-a-kind reimagining of contemporary masculinity in the autism community.Society’s definition of m...
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My vaccine card is in a memento box with other small treasured possessions. The picture of it is still on my phone, even though I haven't needed to show it in order to get into a bar or coffee shop for a long time.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w agoI cried the day I got that first shot.
So I might simply be late to this party, but... did David Lynch by any chance love Alain-Fournier's "The Lost Estate?"
chavisory.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/m... Recently I wrote to New York Senator @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social regarding the issues surrounding ABA and her advocacy for reducing insurance restrictions on its coverage.
My letter to Kirsten Gillibrand regarding her advocacy for ABA
Dear Senator Gillibrand, I received your New York Minute e-mail on July 3 which included NBC’s recent story1 regarding your efforts to ensure that ABA is covered by the Department of Defense as a b…
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A reminder during Disability Pride Month that there’s nothing trivial or strange about having discussions about autistic identity. @epballou.bsky.social
Dear Parents: “Autistic” Isn’t a Bad Word
By Emily Paige Ballou | My guess is that if you have a child or family member on the autism spectrum or have been involved with the special education system or disability services as a professional…
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Hi! For a @motherjones.com piece, I'm looking to connect with disabled and aging people in the Bay Area who are transit dependent re upcoming ballot measures to fund transit. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com.
A4: That is a whole story, but suffice it to say, yes. I first started participating in the autistic blogosphere around 2010, and from there found TPGA, Autistics Speaking Day, was a cofounder of We Are Like Your Child, and joined AWN as part of the social media team in ~2014... #AutChat
#AutChat Mod@autchatmod.bsky.social · 4w agoQ4: Have you participated in other online autism- or neurodivergence-related communities? What’s your experience been like? #AutChat
A3: Yup. I came across Neurodiversity dot com, Autistics dot org, and Mel Baggs's and Laura Tisoncik's writing back in the early 2000's, and they were talking about autism in a way that made me go "....oh." #AutChat
#AutChat Mod@autchatmod.bsky.social · 4w agoQ3: Did the internet play a role in your learning about autism or other neurodivergences (either pre- or post-diagnosis/self-diagnosis)? #AutChat
A2: I think it's probably affected the pathway, but not so much the actual outcome. Obviously I've encountered people and ideas and social dynamics on the internet I wouldn't have otherwise, but my personality compared to when I was a pre-internet kid...I think what happened would've happened.
#AutChat Mod@autchatmod.bsky.social · 4w agoQ2: Do you feel like the internet has affected your personality or how you relate to the world? #AutChat
"Stew, did you just take a sip of what was left in that coffee cup?" "Yeah, there was nothing wrong with it." ☕ #Royals
I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
A long shot, but has anyone by chance read both Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," and Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna?"
I opened up my podcasts for the week, saw the title of the newest "This American Life" episode, hoped to god it would feature the bus story of @musicologyduck.bsky.social, and was not disappointed.
Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong
blair@blairaf.com · 3mo agoOne of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
If you have previously been on SNAP and are now finding it hard to access it after the OBBBA passed, I’d love to speak. Emgarcia.85 on Signal
"We're free men. We're free. You don't tell me anything." Okay, Eric, go for a jog then! See if I care!
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · last mo.MAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."
"I do think we need to be careful not to tie the value of our lives to the profitability of what we can do. But I also believe we all have the right to tell the truth about the complexities of our own lives and abilities as well as disabilities."
Emily Paige Ballou@epballou.bsky.social · last mo.New blog post-- chavisory.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/b...
New blog post-- chavisory.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/b...
Baseball, taxes, and lives worth living: On autistic community responses to RFK, Jr.
With the recent announcement of the Trump administration’s plan to shift certain functions of the Department of Education, including that of oversight of disability education, into the Department o…
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McConnell spokesperson Torgo says in a statement that the Kentucky senator is “not dead the way you know it”
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN
-The lack of accountability displayed by SBC in this is breathtaking. -I cannot think of anyone I less want studying the health issues of autistic women.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2mo agoSimon Baron-Cohen has arguably done more harm to autistic individuals through the way he talks about us than anyone else for decades. Fine, he wants to "clarify" the idea he has defended for years now, but frankly he would be better off just never speaking again. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
What if I told you two hours later the Royals, who out Mets’d the Mets here, are leading 16-9 in the bottom of the 7th
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves
