LIVING WITH AUTISM BY MICHAEL LETTMAN
Welcome to the Wix Website of...
Living with Autism (by Michael Lettman)!
Hope to be a Big Help for the Autistic Community!
About Me
My Bio!
Hello Everyone, My Name is Michael Lettman.
I'm an Advocate living with High-Functioning Autism.
I run My Project's Website as part of my project known as "Living with Autism by Michael Lettman".
I was a student in a P373k Transition Program located at a Head Start program (from within a childcare center) & I've graduated in June 2016 then I've attended the AHRC Community Program in the beginning of 2017.
As of Summer 2019, I'm currently attending the Melissa Riggio Higher Education Program at Kingsborough Community College to work on achieving my future goals to become independent, gain work experience (just like during my time at a childcare center), & to proceed with my advocating project.
Suggested by Ms. Heather Lifland (during my Final School Year): My own project was created with Ms. Heather Lifland helping me starting it, which then started the path for Michael Lettman to try helping the autism community as an advocate.
From working with Ms. Heather Yaden (who volunteered to help me with my Project on Autism): My Blog was created along with me running it but I couldn't have done it without the help of Ms. Heather Yaden.
Since I'm able to articulate what it feels like to be someone who is "Living with Autism", my personal goal is to not only help educators & parents understand those without a voice but to also try explaining Autism from my own perspective. Sometimes I feel like others with autism are mistreated, abused, being hated by non-autistic people, or maybe even get treated badly (maybe even people with other disabilities). I want to try explaining to others about what having autism feels like so they can understand people on the autism spectrum (like myself) a little better. I feel sorry for them for going through much in their lives. Which is why I will try to help & explain Autism from my own perspective so that the autism & non-autism communities can understand each other more within their lives.
