(In reverse order, i.e. most recent at the top.fyi, This is the section for articles BY Michael John Carley. For articles featuring, or ABOUT Michael John Carley, please go to his Past Media page)
Autism Without Fear: What I’d Like to See Change in the Disability World Over the Next 50 Years — Part 2: Know and Teach the REAL History
Autism Spectrum News
Autism Without Fear: What I’d Like to See Change in the Disability World Over the Next 50 Years — Part 1: Let’s Change How We Define “Disability”
Autism Spectrum News
Autism Without Fear: An Autism School Seeks Behavioral Health…Through Humanism
Autism Spectrum News
The Neurodiversity Press Blog
Autism Without Fear: Is it Time to Stop Funding All Biologically or Genetically-Based Autism Research?
The Neurodiversity Press Blog
Autism Spectrum News, after the Neurodiversity Press Blog
Autism Spectrum News, after the Neurodiversity Press Blog
Autism Without Fear: A Major Flaw in College Autism Programs
Autism Spectrum News
Autism Spectrum News (scroll down past Robert Naseef’s beautiful piece)
Autism Without Fear: Reframing Our Conversations About “Sex”
Autism Spectrum News
The Changing Face of Autism Therapy: ABA is Down. Peer Mentoring is Up
Exceptional Parent Magazine
Autism Without Fear: The Last Time I Panicked
Neurodiversity Press
What I’d Like to See Change in (and for) the Disability Community in the Next 50 Years
Neurodiversity Press
When we “Misgender:” A Terrified Majority’s Beginner’s Guide to Modern Pronoun Use
Exceptional Parent Magazine
Exceptional Parent Magazine (advanced copy of layout on my website)
Click here for the eventual version on the Exceptional Parent Magazine website
Why Lily Takes Great Pictures: The Autism Spectrum “Pets Thing”
Exceptional Parent Magazine (advanced copy of layout on my website)
The Toughest Boss I’ll Ever Have (Sissy Goodwin, 1946-2020)
Exceptional Parent Magazine (advanced copy of layout on my website)
They Call it “HIGHER Education:” A Profile of NYU’s Lisa Coleman
Exceptional Parent Magazine
COVIID-19 Isolation with the Carleys: How a Dad on the Spectrum Copes
NEXT for Autism
mjc website
Via the journal, The Behavioral Mind but in Exceptional Parent Magazine (advance layout on my website here)
Why “Best Practices” Means…Nothing
Exceptional Parent Magazine (advanced copy of layout on my website)
Simon (in memory of Father G. Simon Harak 1948-2019)
Veterans for Peace, Inc.
“We Raise Money for Autism Research? But Not for Our Kids’ Schools and Service Agencies???”
Exceptional Parent Magazine
The Brat in Your Classroom (and the Power of Narrative)
The Providence Journal (front page of the Sunday edition)
Editor, Alan Rosenberg writes on the decision to print my piece
“Do I Look Fat in This Diagnosis?”
Exceptional Parent Magazine
on this website and click here for the original layout on Exceptional Parent Magazine
Is Corporate and Educational Use of “Emotional Intelligence” Discrimination as per the ADA?
Exceptional Parent Magazine. The layout is on my site until EP’s issue comes out later this month
“Acceptance” is a Start: Not a Finish
An Exceptional Parent reprint of an earlier piece I did for the Organization for Autism Research (OAR).
Monogamy, Polyamory, and What is “Cheating:” A Guide for the Autism Spectrum (and Beyond?)
Sinkhole
In Praise of Autism Surfing Organizations
An Exceptional Parent reprint of an earlier piece I did for Sinkhole.
In the Autism World, Why Are We Afraid of Sex?
Autism Without Fear: In Praise of Autism Surfing Organizations
Sinkhole
Autism-Schmautism: In the End, Darius McCollum was Poor and Black
(Temporary Placement until December 2018 issue of Exceptional Parent Magazine)
Autism Without Fear: We’re Not “Bad at Sex,” But We Sure Are Bad at Teaching It—Part 1: “Be Afraid!”
Part 2: The Autism World is NOT “Sexpositive.” Here’s Why
Part 3: The Lies That People WITHOUT Autism Live By
Part 4: Monogamy, Polyamory, and What is “Cheating:” A Guide for the Autism Spectrum (and Beyond?)
Sinkhole
Autism Without Fear: Why the Ability to Travel Might Mean…Everything
On my website. Click here for the original version on Exceptional Parent Magazine
Reprint of a January, 2018 Huffington Post column in Exceptional Parent Magazine, July, 2018
Autism Without Fear: Nazi or No Nazi, Hans Asperger Was Not Our Father
(mjc website)
Parents, Does Your Autism Spectrum Child’s School Provide Peer Support…From Spectrum Grownups?
From the 2018 Autism Awareness Edition of Exceptional Parent Magazine
Reprinted in Spectrum Life Magazine in June, 2018
“Acceptance” is a Start, Not a Finish
Written for the Organization for Autism Research (OAR) and their publication, the OARacle
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: The War on Christmas
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Remembering Donna Williams
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear—Green Bay Edition: For Better or for Worse
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear—Green Bay Edition: Erik, Time, and a Simpler Answer
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear—Green Bay Edition: Scott, Sensory Issues, and an Employer Who Gets It
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear—Green Bay Edition: Jakob Robinson is Missing From This Picture
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear—Green Bay Edition: Autism, Elder Care, Alzheimer’s…Meet the Mortons!
Huffington Post
Written for NEXT for Autism
Autism Without Fear: “Do I Look Fat in This Diagnosis?”
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: On the Passing of Autism Speaks’ Suzanne Wright—For Fellow Spectrumites
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: “Is My Company’s Diversity & Inclusion Strategy…’Comical’?”
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Secrets/Confessions of an NFL Mock Draft Genius/LOSER
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Advice for Young, Autistic Authors
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Don’t Get TOO Excited About Autism Employment Initiatives
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Asperger’s, Shootings, Healing, Guns
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Schools Need to Bring Back Skilled Trades—A Conversation with Temple Grandin
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: How “Best Practices” are Vastly Overrated in Today’s Educational Environment
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: When We Are Overwhelmed
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: On “the Twizzler Challenge” and Other Populist Trends
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Examining the Legitimacy of Autism Life Coaches
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: A Tribute to Author Nancy Garden (or to “Sandy and Nancy”)
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Goodbye, New York. Hello . . . Green Bay, Wisconsin???
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: Don’t Kid Yourself—Or Rob Your Kid: Sports Matter
Part 1 of a three-part series for Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Autism Without Fear: In the Autism World, Maybe You Just ARE a Bad Parent
First contribution to a new blog with Huffington Post
Book Review: Gary Greenberg’s “The Book of Woe” (scathing critique of the DSM-V and its authors)
February, 2014 issue of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline
Fall, 2013 edition of Australian Asperger’s Autism Spectrum Magazine.
Socialization for Those on the Autism Spectrum: The Value of Quantity, and the Bigger Picture
Different Roads to Learning. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline.
Tackling the Unemployment Crisis for Adults with Asperger’s
Summer 2012 edition of Autism Spectrum News.
Do I Have Employees with Hidden Disabilities (and Not Know it)?
July 12, 2012 story for Linkage Magazine. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline.
Changing Developments in Employment for Young Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome
May 28, 2013 blog for ASTEP. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline.
Building Corporate Confidence
2012 blog for ASTEP. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline.
The Primacy of Trust (Parts II)
Two part article written with Dr. Barry Prizant that began in the Fall, 2009 issue of Autism Spectrum Quarterly.
Asperger’s Syndrome in the Workplace
CAI Human Resources Management. October 25, 2012. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline.
On Presidential Candidates and Vaccines
Guest blogging for The Culture of Science, 2012. NOTE: This article has since been taken offline
What They Can Do, Not What They Can’t
Front cover article for the Summer, 2009 issue of Autism Spectrum News
Learning the Power of “So What”
Published in the Summer 2006 issue of Autism/Asperger Digest
Published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Autism Perspective (TAP)
Calling a Truce in the Spectrum Wars
Published in the Spring, 2006 issue of Autism Spectrum Quarterly
Published in the February, 2006 issue of The OARacle