Michigan Rehabilitation Services: the employment resource nobody mentions Michigan Rehabilitation Services is federally mandated to provide free employment services to people with disabilities, autism included, starting years before graduation. Most...
Self-determination and self-directed budgets Hiring your own staff and controlling your own budget sounds like freedom, and it is, right up until you realize you’ve become an unlicensed small employer....
Community Living Supports: how to request more hours The hours you get are driven by the words in your documentation, not by how tired you sound on the phone. Here...
Michigan’s Habilitation Supports Waiver, step by step The HSW is the funding source behind most adult autism services in Michigan, and almost nobody explains it in order. Here is the...
CMH basics and being your own best case manager Your case manager is not your enemy, and they are not your only path forward either. Once you know who actually...
Michigan’s PIHP maze Why the county line you live on decides whether your autistic adult gets day programming, crisis support, and respite, or waits years for any of it. By...
Appealing denials without losing what you still have A denial notice has a clock hidden inside it. Miss it and you lose the service while you fight. Catch it and...
When your adult regresses after losing services A cut service does not just leave a gap in a schedule. For many adults, it shows up weeks later as lost words,...
Transportation collapse as a hidden barrier A missed ride never shows up as its own line item anywhere. It shows up as a missed medical appointment, a lost shift, a...
Autistic burnout in adulthood (not a buzzword) Autistic burnout is not tiredness with a trendier name. It is a specific, documented state of exhaustion, skill loss, and reduced tolerance triggered...
