Aug 16, 2021
In 1993, autistic self-advocate Jim Sinclair authored a groundbreaking plea to parents to embrace their autistic children with joy and acceptance. Twenty-eight years on, join Sarah Barton in exploring the impact of Jim’s advice, and of the neurodiversity movement that has followed, on her own experience of parenting, familial relationships, and love.
Podcast introduction music composed and played by First
Parish Music Director Emeritus, Kenneth Seitz: “Amen, Blessed
Be;"
number 14 in the First Parish songbook, Singing Toward
Justice.
Introduction language is the Mission Statement adopted in 2010 spoken here by First Parish lay leaders and Rev. Marta Morris Flanagan.