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Take Care and Don't Ever Give up
What a lovely message to wake upto in my inbox today
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Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 4:36 AM
Hi Hari,
I hope this email finds you well
I am writing from Perth, Australia. I am writing just to let you know that I have found your message and story inspiring
I am the father of a 6 year old autistic boy and I cannot stress enough how your work and messages has giving me so many ideas to assist my little one to live in a non-autistic ready world
Take care and don't ever give up
Hi Hari,
I hope this email finds you well
I am writing from Perth, Australia. I am writing just to let you know that I have found your message and story inspiring
I am the father of a 6 year old autistic boy and I cannot stress enough how your work and messages has giving me so many ideas to assist my little one to live in a non-autistic ready world
Take care and don't ever give up
Master of Ceremonies at ASAN Gala 2021
Join us for a special virtual edition of our annual celebration and fundraising event from Wednesday, November 17th through Friday, November 19th. We’re so excited to share the gala with disability community members and allies from across the country and around the world, who usually wouldn’t be able to attend in-person.
We’re happy to announce that Hari Srinivasan will be our Master of Ceremonies!
Image description: A young Indian American man in his 20s with black hair under a white baseball cap. He is wearing jeans and a long sleeved gray shirt that says California Golden Bears. He is standing next to a stone railing.
Hari Srinivasan is a minimally-speaking autistic student at UC Berkeley. He is on ASAN’s Board of Directors and a 2019 alumnus of our Autism Campus Inclusion program! At UC Berkeley, Hari is a student journalist for the Daily Californian, student instructor for a class on autism, research assistant at the UC Berkeley Psychology and Disability Labs, and was the first nonspeaking president of the student group, Autism:Spectrum At Cal. As a Haas Scholar, he is doing research on how autistic people experience awe. Hari was recently selected to serve on the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which advises federal policy and priorities around autism. We are so grateful for Hari’s dedicated advocacy!
Hari hopes to bring attention to issues which impact disabled people in myriad areas and across the lifespan. He also wants to emphasize the urgency to include and address the issues faced by the more marginalized groups and higher support needs within the autism and larger disability community, including their mental, physical healthcare needs and comorbidities. When the voices of select groups get left out of the conversation, it negatively impacts their access to spaces, resources, funding, policy and quality of life.
We are full of autistic awe that Hari will host our annual gala and hope that you can come celebrate with us!
Gala tickets are donate-what-you-can, but no donation will be required to attend our virtual gala events. Proceeds will support our advocacy work and programs for the coming year, and allow us to continue working to empower disabled people across the country. If you’re able, please consider donating to support our work. If you are not able to donate, no worries -- we’re just happy to have you celebrating with us!
Honorees and other programming will be announced in the coming weeks.
You can RSVP to our Facebook event and invite your friends! We’re excited to celebrate together.
Second Mention in Time Magazine
I got a 2nd mention in a Time Magazine Article in an article by Eric Garcia. :)
https://time.com/6092407/autism-making-life-easier/
Autism Society Virginia - Summer Speaker Series
Speaking at Autism Society Virginia, Summer Speaker Series on Aug 5
Recording on their website at
Keynote - Youth Leadership Forum - Able SC
I was keynote at the Youth Leadership Forum by South Carolina Able on 7/26/21
YLF 2021 is in full swing! Delegates have spent the morning building their disability pride and hearing from our keynote speaker, @harisri108 , about how small pieces of self-advocacy can lead to big changes for the disability community!
As Hari said, 'I think when you have a disability, some part of you is always in some kind of self doubt about your capabilities'. For the rest of the day, we are continuing to build our disability pride and work on ways to get past that self doubt to become strong advocates for ourselves and others!
[Image: A computer screen showing a presentation. The presentation read, 'Pebbles in the Pond of Change. Small pebbles count and add to the ripple in that pond of change'. A picture shows 5 pebbles creating a ripple effect in a body of water.]
Chat Comments during webinar
08:02:32 What is Ryan?
08:02:45 A text-to-speech program
08:02:47 his aac voice
08:02:59 mine is called tracy 08:03:25
08:10:32 Well put, Hari. No justice unless there's justice for all!
08:11:25 I completely agree with this video, it's very well put together and nuanced
08:18:28 You've done some really impressive work Hari
08:20:36 thats really cool
08:20:55 Hari just curious why did you make it so someone else is speaking on this slideshow and not you
08:21:13 hari has a speech disability
08:21:23 It's a text to speech program controlled by Hari, so it's still him
08:21:34 he has a speech disability
08:21:53 Ah
08:31:03 Thank you for sharing your story, Hari.
08:31:15 That was awesome Hari
08:31:37 That was amazing hari
08:37:36 i like that
08:38:17 That was very unique Hari
08:38:24 thank you for sharing hari
08:38:47 Great Job Hari!
08:38:54 It's very astute, I was impressed fr
08:41:02 That was amazing harri you did amazing job 👍🏾
08:41:16 I have a question, what do you mean each pebble is our own steps?
08:45:44 Thank you Hari!
08:46:11 Even the tiny things make a difference!
My first book reading
my first book reading (via zoom) at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, on 7/22
The last time I was published by Scholastic in an anthology, there were readings in Battery Park,NY and I never went as I thought I would not be able to participate, much to my regret now.
So this was my very first attempt using text to speech to read out the excerpts.. yeah.
Thursday 7/22, Essential Truths has their virtual Oakland Book Launch, hosted by Oakland Asian Cultural Center, from 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. PST!!!!
Chat Comments
19:03:05 From Rachall Lee, she/her (OACC) to Everyone:
Today’s Program:
1) Opening & Land Acknowledgement
2) Guest Presentations
3) Open Discussion/Q&A
4) Closing
19:03:55 From Rachall Lee, she/her (OACC) to Everyone:
Native Land website: https://native-land.ca/
19:37:26 From danny ryu (they/them) to Everyone:
Go hari!!
19:37:30 From Tria (she/her) to Everyone:
So wonderful, Elmaz! And yay Hari!!
19:37:47 From Rachall Lee, she/her (OACC) to Everyone:
Hari Srinivasan is currently a student at UC Berkeley and a student journalist at the Daily Californian. Hari is a prolific writer, having won many awards for his writing and poetry. He is also a minimally speaking autistic and passionate about disability justice. His advocacy was mentioned on President Obama’s Instagram campaign on the 30th anniversary of ADA
19:37:56 From Kelechi Ubozoh (she/her) to Everyone:
I mourn the loss of the human body
19:38:05 From Diann Leo-Omine (she/her) to Everyone:
Zoom the new reality
19:38:13 From danny ryu (they/them) to Everyone:
A microscopic virus brought the world to its knees
19:38:32 From Sridevi to Everyone:
the irony!
19:38:40 From Diann Leo-Omine (she/her) to Everyone:
So true, Hari!
19:38:50 From Elmaz Abinader, She/hers to Everyone:
Truth to power
19:38:54 From Lenore Naxon to Everyone:
Indeed.
19:38:58 From Akemi Chan-Imai, she/her (OACC) to Everyone:
<3 <3
19:39:12 From Kelechi Ubozoh (she/her) to Everyone:
when the able bodied demanded it the impossible became possible overnight
19:39:20 From katie aliféris to Everyone:
TRUTHS!!!
19:39:21 From Sandra Bass to Everyone:
Cal in the house!
19:39:21 From Akemi Chan-Imai, she/her (OACC) to Everyone:
yes!!
19:39:34 From Vanessa Cabrera to Everyone:
when I was there I wasn’t
19:39:45 From Diann Leo-Omine (she/her) to Everyone:
Somehow I was on equal footing
19:39:53 From Faria to Everyone:
Zoom as an equalizer
19:39:58 From danny ryu (they/them) to Everyone:
I became part of the conversation
19:40:07 From Sandra Bass to Everyone:
A part of the conversation rather than an observer of conversations.
19:40:10 From Lenore Naxon to Everyone:
He's opened my eyes.
19:40:12 From Christl Perkins to Everyone:
became part of the conversation, more than an observer of conversations
19:40:17 From Shirley Huey (she/her) to Everyone:
^^^
19:40:39 From Christl Perkins to Everyone:
definitely a lot of intersectionalities
19:40:44 From danny ryu (they/them) to Everyone:
yes.
19:40:45 From Shirley Huey (she/her) to Everyone:
yes
19:41:00 From Yeva Johnson to Everyone:
Hari, thank you for these lessons on intersectionality!
19:41:03 From Lorraine Bonner to Everyone:
Elijah McClain
19:41:16 From katie aliféris to Everyone:
yes!!!
19:41:20 From Sandra Bass to Everyone:
survival of the kindest!
19:41:21 From Faria to Everyone:
Survival of the kindest <3
19:41:21 From Tria (she/her) to Everyone:
Yes, Hari! All these truths.
19:41:21 From Akemi Chan-Imai, she/her (OACC) to Everyone:
survival of the kindest
19:41:24 From Kelechi Ubozoh (she/her) to Everyone:
<3
19:41:24 From danny ryu (they/them) to Everyone:
Survival of the KINDEST!!
19:41:28 From Yeva Johnson to Everyone:
Survival of the kindest, never heard of that until today! Thank you!!!
19:41:28 From katie aliféris to Everyone:
^^^
19:41:30 From Yeva Johnson to Everyone:
❤️❤️❤️
19:41:30 From Shirley Huey (she/her) to Everyone:
yes
19:41:37 From Tureeda Mikell to Everyone:
Great information, Hari!
19:41:43 From Sridevi to Everyone:
Sadly, it's true! worse for those with more intersections
19:41:53 From Sandra Bass to Everyone:
Project our goodness into the world through ACTION!
19:41:54 From Tria (she/her) to Everyone:
Thank you for this daily nudge <3 <3
19:41:55 From Vanessa Cabrera to Everyone:
thank you!!!!
19:41:56 From Elmaz Abinader, She/hers to Everyone:
yay
19:41:56 From Sandra Bass to Everyone:
Thank you Hari!
19:41:56 From Faria to Everyone:
Hari!! Thank you!
19:41:57 From Yeva Johnson to Everyone:
Thank you, Hari!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
19:41:58 From danny ryu (they/them) to Everyone:
Wowwwwww thank you hari
19:42:02 From Kelechi Ubozoh (she/her) to Everyone:
HARI SO MOVING!
19:42:02 From Sandra Wassilie to Everyone:
Beautiful message, Hari: survival of the kindest.
19:42:05 From Susana Praver-Perez to Everyone:
Thank YOU Hari!!!
19:42:07 From Sridevi to Everyone:
daily nudge for long term!
19:42:08 From Tureeda Mikell to Everyone:
Yes all that’s Good within ourselves! Thank You!!!
19:42:12 From Christl Perkins to Everyone:
Wisdom - thank you Hari!
19:42:14 From Nancy Hom to Everyone:
Let us reach down into that goodness!
19:42:18 From Shirley Huey (she/her) to Everyone:
Thank you Hari!
19:42:27 From Johnny Huy Nguyen to Everyone:
Thank you for the real talk and the hopefulness
19:42:31 From Pardis Esmaeili to Everyone:
So insightful
19:42:49 From maestro mathmattox to Everyone:
10Q so much hari!
Autism and Empathy
As I was doing the Literature Review for my Haas Scholars Research, I came upon this research paper from Oxford University.
https://journals.sagepub.com/
I'm being quoted in this paper. OMG. totally Unexpected and too cool.
Mentions
Got a mention in the comments in an article around Elon Musk.......
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-musk-autism-aspergers-b1847069.html
Disability As Possibility
I was Keynote speaker at the "Improving Opportunities and Outcomes" conf by National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (which is federally funded by the US Dept of Ed to provide support to State Ed and Vocational Rehab for transition age youth.) https://transitionta.org.
Addressed an audience of 338 people from 37 states + DC & Puerto Rico
Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, SC, Rhode Is, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Virginia, Puerto Rico.
Talk titled 'Disability As Possibility.
My talk was titled Disability As Possibility/
Lovely summary of what my talk was about.
Hari
shares insights gathered through his personal experience of autism and
discusses his research on the impact of labeling and expectations on
life outcomes for students and youth with disabilities. He challenges
professionals, educators, and providers to be game changers - adopting a
growth mindset, an emphatic discipline, and an approach of ‘equity of
access’ to support and guide students and youth with disabilities to
create their own personal agency and long-term quality of life. Through
that understanding and ability to see ‘disability as possibility’,
opportunities are born from those possibilities so students and youth
can take detours, challenge the sinkholes, pave new roads, and
persevere.
A bit about me on their website. https://www.yeslms.com/ntactc-2021-cbvi-hari-srinivasan
Some Comments in the Zoom Chat
- I was thinking the same thing about "voice" when you started using text to speech. We need to fix this! There should be options for text to speech
- Great example of how the use of technology allows a person to demonstrate their intellectual disabilities. What would have happened if this opportunity had not been available?
- Oh wow, congratulations!
- Belonging!! This is key.
- https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2021/02/06/a-boy-like-me/ Link to Hari’s Article ^^^
- Even though you have many challenges, you are able to express them so eloquently.
- If you haven't read Alice's larger work that Hari contributed to, I highly recommend it! #Retweet @Michelle - The Disability Visibility Project started by Alice Wong is Fantastic https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/
- You are brilliant Hari! Thank you for these insights
- It's so nice to meet you Hari!
- Interview with Prof Frank Worrell in Grad School of Education & President -Elect of American Psychological Assn, Daily Californian.https://www.dailycal.org/2021/02/12/frank-worrell/
- Great point, Hari! Let’s change the narrative!
- Amen---you have hit the nail on the head!
- I feel overwhelmed thinking about those who don't have the access, ability or opportunity to express themselves as well as you. Thank you for reminding us to have high expectations and to presume competence-or maybe brilliance!
- I know that feeling well Anne
- racism and ableism are intertwined
- intersectionality is often overlooked
- Anne, you took the words from my mouth! I was thinking the same thing. If others had access to means to express themselves the way Hari has, imagine the amazing things we would see from our youth with disabilities! Thank you for the inspiration Hari!
- The pandemic and recent events have made that divide even greater
- Hari: brilliance is too big an onus to put on a person, everyone can't be a savant, competence is good start, we all deserve a good quality of life
- Thank you sorry
- well said, Hari!
- Yes Hari! Independence is subjective
- Great conversations out here today!
- Yes!
- Yes, you are right, Hari. I'll stick with high expectations!
- I love developmentally all over the place. That is a great explanation!
- Love this new term, developmentally all-over-the-place!
- delay does imply that one is always behind - I agree it's another label that works against people
- Thank you Hari!!! This is Awesome!!
- This is so Knowledgeable!
- yes yes yes yes
- Right on target!
- Link to Hari’s Keynote, Disability as Possibility: https://youtu.be/HnuzQbLIN6M
- Wow….This is so powerful!
- Agreed
- That's a great observation of special education. Compliance is easier to control, but does not get to the heart of what is needed which can be a little harder to implement. However, it's better for the person in the end.
- Wow! You are truly amazing. Helping me think about how to understand my son. How to empower him!
- Especially at you move higher in education. Self-Determination is very important.
- Thought Provoking
- Amazing messages! Spot on!!!
- Thank you for sharing this about Communication, I AGREE with you 100%...
- YES! I've counseled extensively on learning to say no.
- This is really good!
- Any questions for Hari?
- This is amazing!
- Is there a way to get a transcript of Hari's presentation?
- from my friend Jennifer White: Educators need to move from Compliance to Alliance
- Perfect
- So powerful! Thank you Hari!
- THANK YOU
- This was GREAT and spot on
- "Challenge the sinkholes!" Love that.
- Very thought provoking! Thanks Hari
- Thank you so much!
- Thank you!!!
- uniquelyhari.blogspot.com, www.dailycal.org/author/haris, tinyurl.com/108hari
- Truly inspiring
- Agree very powerful, thank you!
- Hari, what advice would you give to this years graduates?
- That was great, thanks.
- Thank you, Hari!
- This was an exceptional presentation
- Amazing insight about compliance
- Brillant!
- Right, @Paula G.
- So much to think about, thank you Hari!
- : Incredible insights. I would like to be able to access a recording of this
- thank you! very thought provoking!
- thank you
- Thank you for sharing your experience Hari.
- Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: @HariSri108 @HariSri108 108Hari
- I SO enjoyed this, Thank You
- Thank you, Hari! Powerful message!
- This was great, I enjoyed very much
- hanks for a great presentation!
- excellent presentation that was very engaging, informative, and thought provoking
- I too prefer identity first - it's empowering for me! Thanks Hari
- Thank you - wonderful - absolutely wonderful to hear you share and very powerful and thought provoking message.
- My hand is aaised.
- Thank you for your message Hari. Very powerful and will make a difference for many people!
- Thank You Hari!!!!
- Great presentation\
- Thanks For Sharing Hari!!!
- Great job Hari!
- I am just completely in awe. Thank you thank you thank you
- What inspired you to want to persue special education?
- Excellent Presentation...Thank you Hari!
- Thank you - this was wonderful!
- Thank you for sharing!
- So profound and very inspiring Hari!
- Great presentation Hari! Thanks for sharing!
- Very inspiring Hari
- Inspirational!
- Thank you, Hari! Great presentation.
- Can you share how your parents supported you in your journey?
- Hari, please tell us about your high school years and when you began thinking about and working toward college.
- Excellent presentation - thank you Hari!
- thanks
- Can we give Hari a chance to respond before asking additional questions?
- Thank you Hari for your honest assessment of the gaps in the profession.
- Thank you! Your speech was great!
- Thank you
- Thank you
- Thank you Hari!
- Thank you Hari!
- Thank you, Hai! This was an amazing presentation! So inspiring.
- Thank you Hari!
- Thanks Hari!
- Thank you
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