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Transcript of AutisticRealityPodcast S1E35 - Disability Rights Tour of FDR Memorial with Jim Dickson, By Alec Frazier and Autistic Reality

(upbeat music) ALEC FRAZIER [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Autistic Reality Podcast. Here at Autistic Reality, we believe in three levels of identity. We believe that we are all human, traveling on our journey together, and that we have much more in common than what sets us apart. We believe that we are all individuals with richly unique experiences, and finally, we believe in the importance of all other identities, whether they be gender, race, sexual orientation, ability, faith, and much, much more. Join us on this wonderful journey as we interview key players and discuss important topics. We hope this journey will be informative and fun. We are ready, nothing about us without us. So welcome everyone to this disability rights tour of the FDR Memorial in Washington, DC. I’m here with Jim Dickson, and Jim Dickson, what is your role with the memorial? JIM DICKSON [00:01:14] I was part of the leadership team that fought to have a statue of FDR in his wheelchair added to the Memorial
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Holiday Letter from Alec Frazier 2020, By Alec Frazier and Autistic Reality

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Dear Santa, Me  with Santa Claus Aha! This year has been quite an adventure! Multiple things have happened on the personal, professional, emotional, mental, and other fronts, but you know what? I’m still here! Me Being the Y in Joy at the 2020 Downtown Silver Spring Holiday Display I am currently living in a hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland, as I wait for my new address to clear up. This has been a fascinating year, and for many reasons. I feel like the virus outbreak and the ensuing quarantine have actually brought my friends, family, and I closer together, and not further apart. Normally, I focus these letters on the members of my biological family. However, this year, I would also like to focus in on the beautiful, wonderful friends who make me shine and thrive so many miles away from my said biological family. My Mother Decorating Her Christmas Tree My mother has finally moved into an assisted living facility, although she is currently in what is supposed to be a completely ind
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Location: Days Inn by Wyndham Silver Spring
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Alec’s Independent Living Tips: A Home of Your Own, By Alec Frazier and Autistic Reality

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Forward Ward Sinclair Plaza in the Center of My Hometown, Takoma Park, Maryland As you know by now, I have several disabilities. I am proud of the fact that I live on my own, and I have since at least 2008. What follows is my advice on Independent living in a safe, reliable home. The Body My Building, the Cambridge Apartments by HabitatAmerica in Takoma Park, Maryland Please move to a safe, reliable, livable home. I know many people who suffer because they live in subpar apartments. This essay will assume that you will be renting, rather than owning. Ideally, you can live in a good apartment for years on end. In fact, in most of the world, people rent properties over the course of decades, and even generations. You need to know what to look for. That is where I come in. The Common Room/Business Center in My Building, the Cambridge It will never cease to amaze me how many people with options choose to live in slums or bad apartments. A number of these people have defended themselv
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Location: The Wombatorium 2.0: A Capital Idea
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My Coming Out Story, By Alec Frazier and Autistic Reality

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My Definition of Pride Marching in the DC Pride Parade Pride is the contentment and wonder that results from the exciting, amazing ability everyone has to be who they truly are. The Body Two Men Kissing My brother and I have been known to tussle. One time when I was about 19 years old, one of these tussles ended with me bleeding out my ear. My mother and I went to the hospital and as I lay in the emergency room, I told her that I was bisexual. She asked what had brought that about, and I said, “Well mom, I saw Troy…” We discussed it further, and I admitted that I had been that way from the get-go. There was a short time of me telling people, none of whom reacted negatively at all. My father was fine with it, my brother was fine with it, my friends were fine with it. Shortly after this time, I had my first sexual encounter with a male, and it was much more fulfilling than the sex I had had with a female earlier. My brother had at one point said, “Come on Alec, we all k
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Location: The Wombatorium 2.0: A Capital Idea
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My Compiled AAPD Intern Blog, by Alec Frazier and Autistic Reality

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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011 How I Got Here: The Road to the 2011 AAPD Summer Internship 2011 AAPD Summer Intern Alec Frazier in Front of the White House My name is Alec Frazier, 24 at the moment, from Ithaca, New York. I am a person with disabilities and I am very proud of that, as I am proud of all facets of my character. On a day-to-day basis I live with Asperger's syndrome, a high functioning form of autism that comes coupled with, in my case, bipolar disorder, ADD, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), dysgraphia, digital atonia, and facial atonia among other disorders. When I was young I spoke before politicians, to raise funding for children in special education. My first job however, was in a library. Throughout my career I have balanced interests in library sciences and politics. On a trip to the Massachusetts State House and the historic collections library it contained, I realized that I could mix the two and go for a dream job in archiving. The next few year
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Location: The Wombatorium 2.0: A Capital Idea
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