Autistic Reality

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...

Na’vi Burial My religious views are quite unconventional. In terms of organized religion, I belong to the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, or UUA. In terms of actual beliefs, I believe in the dictates of reason, and then therefore a humanist. In addition, I have a live and let live philosophy, and I am a right reverend minister in the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, a genuine, federally recognized faith based on the live and let live philosophy of the Jeff Bridges’s character The Dude from the Coen Brothers Comedy, “The Big Lebowski”. Furthermore, I believe that if there is any divine presence, then it is the wherewithal of everything in this universe together. The best interpretation of this presence is the goddess Eywa from James Cameron’s Avatar. She is a very humanist goddess. What follows is my wishes for my funeral in celebration of life. Overlooking the Elco Cemetery in Bondad, CO When I die, I wish to be buried in the Frazier burial plot outsid...