Share Your Autism Story This Month

This year, during Autism Awareness Month, we invite the CHD community to share their personal experiences with autism. We encourage you to send stories of hope, or stories about your personal challenges. Maybe you have information or advice you’d like to share with parents of children with autism? Or maybe you just want to sound off on an autism-related subject?  We welcome your stories and viewpoints — we just ask that you follow our article submission guidelines.

We welcome articles that are:

1. No longer than 5,000 characters.
2. Clearly written and well-organized. Please self-edit for clarity, brevity, and organization.
3. Accurate and well-sourced. If your article contains facts, please double-check them and provide links to credible sources.
4. Your own work. Please don’t plagiarize and please don’t send an article someone else wrote listing you as the author.

Please send your article as plain text in the body of the form below. Include your name, a brief bio and a headshot. Please send photos of your family or child, only if you don’t mind our publishing them.

Please also include contact information — we won’t share your personal contact details, but we need to be able to contact you if we have questions.

We read all submissions. However, due to the high volume of submissions and our small staff, we cannot respond to all of them. If we plan to publish your article, we will contact you.

We reserve the right to make minor style edits. We will send you the final article for review before we publish it.

We do not pay for Community News & Views articles. All content on the Community and CHD website is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Under this license, we allow others to republish all content online or in print.