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Blog #232: Autism and Epilepsy
When Autism Self-Advocate and Public Speaker David Sharif died this weekend of a seizure, it brought attention to something that is a...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 28, 20222 min read
Blog #231: Time Heals All Wounds
Ever since myself and the rest of the autism/neurodiversity community learned of the passing of fellow advocate David Sharif earlier this...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 27, 20222 min read
Blog #230: A Tribute to David Sharif (1997-2022)
David Sharif (1997-2022) As many of you in the community know by now, we lost one of our most respected and dedicated members over the...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 26, 20222 min read
Blog #229: Why Teachers and Administrators are My Key Audience?
A lot of people may ask me what my key audience is as an autism/neurodiversity self-advocate and public speaker. I would answer you that...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 23, 20223 min read
Blog #228: Creating A Presentation on School Assemblies and Why
Something that I have been wanting to do for some time now is to create a presentation on school assemblies. As some of you know, one of...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 21, 20222 min read
Blog #227: Why “Hell’s Kitchen” is Bad for My Mental Health?
As promised, here is that blog I promised you about why I stopped watching “Hell’s Kitchen” and found it to be bad for my overall mental...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 20, 20223 min read
Blog #226: Why I Will Continue Masking on Planes as a Neurodiverse/Disabled Individual
I’m sure many of you have heard by now that a federal judge (who, by the way, is only two years older than me and a couple months older...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 19, 20222 min read
Blog #225: Focusing on Special Education, IEP’s and Transitions (Part 2)
First of all, on behalf of myself and “Going the Distance,” I wish you all a very happy and blessed Easter and Passover season. This is...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Blog #224: Focusing on Special Education, IEP’s and Transitions (Part 1)
As we head into the most important week of the year if you are celebrating Easter or Passover, I wanted to share with you something that...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 16, 20223 min read
Blog #223: Picking Up From Yesterday’s Blog About Drama
As you may recall, yesterday I talked about what it is to deal with constant drama that is around us. But the truth of the matter is...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 14, 20222 min read
Blog #222: Why I Can’t Stand People Who Crave Overall Drama?
A while back, I talked about why I couldn’t stand people who are dramatic in the workplace. But as it turns out, it’s not just in the...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 13, 20223 min read
Blog #221: Statewide Testing
Something that I have been wanting to cover for quite some time but never had the chance to is standardized statewide testing. In recent...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 12, 20223 min read
Blog #220: Beginning of the End of School Year
In keeping with my end of the school year blog posts, I wanted to cover an important issue that a lot of special education classes...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 11, 20223 min read
Blog #219: Don’t Wait Until Graduation to Secure a Part Time Job
In my previous blog, I promised you all that I would be covering the end of the school year and the challenges that come with it. For...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 8, 20222 min read
Blog #218: Senioritis
I’m pretty high schools and colleges everywhere are experiencing this around this time of year, but I wanted to talk about it from my...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 7, 20222 min read
Blog #217: Chris Rock’s Non-Verbal Learning Disorder and Learning About NVLD For the First Tim
Something that was recently brought to my attention by my boss at Unicorn Children’s Foundation was warranted enough to be turned into a...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 6, 20222 min read
Blog #216: Unicorn Children’s Foundation and Neurodiverse/Disabled Families from the Caribbean
When I was down in Southeast Florida recently for Unicorn Children’s Foundation’s Gala, I couldn’t help but notice something about the...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 5, 20222 min read
Blog #215: Why I Will Start Wearing a Sunflower Lanyard
Following what I had described in Blog #213 last week involving my friend/colleague, Rachel Barcellona of the Ability Beyond...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 4, 20222 min read


Blog #214: Why “The Last Unicorn” (1982) Should Be Studied in School?
During my time as a student, I had the opportunity to be exposed to some of the great written works in literature, but there was sadly...

Jeffrey Snyder
Apr 2, 20224 min read
Blog #213: Defending Ability Beyond Disabilities
… I don’t usually write these kinds of blogs, but I feel that as a member of the neurodiversity/disability community, I do need to come...

Jeffrey Snyder
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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