Our oldest son was the first child diagnosed with any sort of behavioral disorder by a doctor. He is impulsive, defiant, loves to test boundaries, and pushes our buttons. At the same time, he’s thoughtful, creative, imaginative, kind, and loving. I think this is why kids are born cute. It’s a self defense mechanism for… read more »
Our Kids Are Turning Us Autistic
2011
Of course it’s all tongue in cheek, but it’s funny how much my husband and I have changed since having the boys in therapies. What made me think of this post was when I was putting the grocery list together (ok, so I was thinking about putting the list together), and I asked if we… read more »
Special Needs Blog Hop – The Funny
2011
This week’s topic is to tell a funny story involving our child. There are so many over the years. The one of our oldest that sticks out the most is from right before my husband was deploying. We were waiting to get our new IDs, and in walked a drill SGT. Zach says, “Look, a… read more »
A Little Understanding is Key
2011
It doesn’t happen very often, but I was offended this morning by a site I saw posted on Facebook. It’s a site that posts pictures of children other people deem to big to be riding in strollers (I’m not linking and giving them traffic). There was also a comment about needing a site for kids… read more »
Autism is a Gift?
2011
I’m just four days into Autism Awareness Month, and I’m finding issues on which parents are polarized that I didn’t even realize. For example. I happened to get tagged in one of those Twitter newspapers because I used that tag: Asperger’s. That’s it. Just Asperger’s. The newspaper was called Asperger’s Symdrome Daily or something like… read more »
World Autism Awareness Day
2011
I was informed yesterday that today is WORLD Autism Awareness Day. I guess yesterday was just a practice run? Just autism awareness in the US? I don’t know. Honestly, I’m still new to all of this. We’re just a little over a year since our oldest was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Sure we were trying… read more »
But You Can’t Tell
2011
My oldest son, Zach, has an official diagnosis of Asperger’s. When he starts being his Zachy self, and we explain to family and friends, sometimes even the odd stranger, we often hear, “But you really can’t tell.” I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be comforting or not. Sometimes when we’re out in public and… read more »
Why Must Thee Judge?
2011
I was perusing Facebook yesterday, and Parenting.com had posted that Suri Cruise had been photographed with a binky. *Gasp* The horror! I guess the big deal is that she’s almost 5 years old. There were MANY judgemental comments on that posting by people. Here’s my take: if it’s not a safety issue, who cares? I… read more »
Death and Autism
2011
How do you explain death to your autistic child? How do you get any sense that they really know what it means? I told my nine year old son yesterday that his Nana had died that afternoon. He maybe, kinda, seemed sad for a second, then he asked if he’d be missing any school, and… read more »
Phobias
2011
I have to admit that when we got the paperwork back saying that Aaron is moderately autistic, I was a bit surprised. Then last night happened, and I see it more. Aaron had been asking for two weeks to go to Chili’s. Since their service has gotten better, we’ve been going once in awhile again…. read more »
