Abandoning the Comics Code Authority, or, How to Consider A Comic Book Audience and Writing Purpose
Category: Ethics
Why we’re angry, dear Rosie…
Why are people angry, Rosie? You broke the Golden Rule regarding advocacy It's one of the few social rules we have written.
Solving State Budget Crisis with 4th Grade Math (by an adult with autism)
[WARNING This post may incite Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder over remembered experiences with mathematical word problems or school experiences the same.] A train leave Chicago at 4:15pm, travelling 120 mph. Another train leaves New York at 5:25pm, travelling 90 mph. At what time will Pennsylvanian legislators resolve their political rhetoric to decidedly vote on a …
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Open Letter to U.S. Congress
Dear Congressmen Doyle and Smith, and Respected Members of the U.S. Congressional Autism Caucus: I write to you as an autism self-advocate. While my local representative, Congressman Mike Doyle (Co-Chair), and I met this summer, I bring new concerns to you all. Recently, price spikes of certain prescription medicines caused alarm from the economic and …
Direct Questions to Autism Speaks
Anything I write about #Autism Speaks acts as a polarizing lightning rod. I ask them why...
Non-Verbal Speech
Understanding facial feature recognition lets us bypass rhetoric from any side.
DEAR SANTA CLAUS
We need better, unifying definitions under Christmas Trees. Am asking for...
A MARVELous Dirty Secret
We congratulate Marvel Comics for a brilliant, polarizing marketing strategy! If we don’t like a new gay Iceman, we’re painted as homophobic or heterosexist. I contend this change has nothing to do with diversity and everything to do about money. Here's how and why...
Who Taught Us to Hate Ourselves? (Oops, we did…)
“Joe” self-identifies himself as “autistic.” He invites his friends to observe World Autism Awareness Day. They meet to celebrate at a fancy nightclub. A Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim walk into the nightclub. After talking for a while, they each agree to set aside their different religious beliefs. Together, they understand how their …
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Autism Labels As a Tool for Understanding
Face Value Comics helps people with an autism label to better understand how emotions are expressed in the face to be more emotionally aware and increase understanding.
Autism at Face Value 