Blog Archive 2022

A confident and enthusiastic volunteer, Liz Smith has been passionate about volunteering for Washington Autism Alliance (WAA) since 2019. That year, we helped Liz and her husband Brett with the arbitration process for ABA coverage for her son Matthias. She started out by volunteering for our gala in 2020, and this year she is co-chair […]

Ron Paige is a quiet, unassuming man. He works behind the scenes for the Washington Autism Alliance (WAA), maintaining our extensive resource directory and producing our internal fundraising and outreach report every week. His volunteer work is motivated by his deep desire to give back to the community in his retirement.  Surprisingly, Ron did not […]

Moms are an integral part of the autism community, whether they are neurotypical mothers fighting to get their autistic child the help and support that they need to thrive, autistic mothers who have and raise children in defiance of ableist assumptions, or autistic mothers who have autistic children and used their lived experience of that […]

13 years ago, I came back home from almost a year spent at a residential treatment center for autistic teens several thousand miles away from my home, and I’m still not sure if the experience has been more helpful than harmful to me. I was sent there after a year of complete mental breakdown, which […]