Colored T-SHIRTS, bibs, smiles, worries, elderly parents all around, incredulous to see the neighborhood involved in days during which their “hidden” children become protagonists of a European project. Allenurbis, financed by Europe and mediated by the Liguria Region, leads young adults with different disabilities to run, sail, paint, sculpt and even row together, to whom the sadness of a heavy pandemic confinement until now had been obligatory. For everyone, of course, but much more for them. Yes, because free time and socialization are considered a “minor” problem compared to the living and working autonomy after us, for those who live forced to intellectual, sensorial or motor limits. It’s really like this?
Autism, families increasingly alone in the pandemic
by Maria Teresa Bradascio
The project
Combining the desire to live a full life, autonomous and inserted in the social context, children and young adults live a reality that excludes and discards those who cannot. Little to do, and so on. Not for La Spezia, however, where a province with the limits of an ancient inferiority complex, finds itself the protagonist of an innovative program. It was born from afar: above all from the farsightedness of a banking foundation that knows how tiring it can be to unite the requests of social volunteering, to insist on aggregation programs. Only by putting together shared energies, ideas and projects, it is possible to create a quality capable of changing the history of disability in the city. Matteo Melley was aware of this; it was he who concentrated the volunteer forces dedicated to autism and promoted the Aut Aut Foundation, autonomy autism, today capable of managing restaurants, hotels and the production of pasta and ravioli, where people with autism work, regularly employed. Two characters, fathers of “different” children, lead those initiatives: Roberto Barichello and Alberto Brunetti.
Autism: the story of Agnes, Aspy girl
at Federico Mereta
Public services at the service of parents
Now that Andrea Corradino has joined the presidency of the banking foundation, the passing of the baton leads us to run in the same direction, reinforcing a winning trend, which even politics is aware of. Allenurbis, in fact, is thanks to a councilor who believes in it, perhaps because as a child, she herself understood how important it is for a parent to find certain answers in public services. Ilaria Cavo was that little girl and today she inaugurates a project that gives credit to those who believe that the so-called “free time” is not a luxury at all. Since that time, in fact, the possibility of the “different” to make themselves visible to an attentive community has passed.
Autism, the story of the child who has recovered neuromotor development
by Irma D’Aria
Fabrizio Acanfora, autistic person, musician and author of enlightening books, says that “with the creation of the ideal of normality in the second half of the nineteenth century, diversity has been trapped in categories of which the most extensive (called majority or normality) determines the fate of the others. People, divided into diagnostic, social or cultural categories, are discriminated (in the sense of being differentiated, judged and ghettoized) on the basis of their characteristics, as well as their differences, within certain limits dictated by a concept of paternalistic and assimilative inclusion, they become tolerable, part of the daily landscape even though sometimes considered as exotic, others as undesirable “.
Autism, Elon Musk: “I have Asperger’s syndrome. This is how my brain works”
by Maria Teresa Bradascio
“Allenurbis – Urban sports events”, is a project of social inclusion and integration through sports and artistic activities aimed at raising awareness in the community on the participation and active citizenship of children with disabilities. I hope it can spread throughout the Italian province: Europe is there, just do the projects well and the funding arrives. Waking up from the post-pandemic, it is to be hoped that they will multiply everywhere.
Autism. Males and females: two different syndromes
by Maria Teresa Bradascio
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