5 Unexpected Things That Some Kids with Autism do in Public

Laura J. Murphy, MFA, MEd
4 min readJan 16, 2019

When people outside of our world hear the word “autism” they tend to associate it with three things: not talking, not making eye contact, and monsters. But what people don’t realize is that our children don’t all look the same.

For some children, you can tell right off the bat that they have it. And for many others, their autism is an “invisible disability.” I don’t particularly care for this term because to me, it signifies that they aren’t real. Invisibility is a superpower that doesn’t actually exist. I would probably coin…

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Laura J. Murphy, MFA, MEd

writer, educator, instructional designer, parent to a child with autism, advocate, disrupter, civil rights activist