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Ice Cream and Autism


navigating the murky waters of autism and other special needs

My Son is Allergic to Everything

Posted on June 5, 2018Categories Food Allergies, HistoryLeave a comment on My Son is Allergic to Everything

Food allergies don’t normally count as special needs. I understand this. But Yoshi was an especially tricky customer so I always lump this part of our lives in the with the rest. And even though we knew that it all started as allergies, even though we fought like mad to fit it all into that …
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The Ninth Circle of Hell

Posted on May 30, 2018Categories Autism, HistoryLeave a comment on The Ninth Circle of Hell

I’m not here to give you a poetry lesson, but if you are not familiar with Dante’s Inferno, the ninth circle of hell (the deepest) was considered to house the worst punishments. According to Dante, the traitors belonged at the bottom of the well with a special place reserved specifically for treason against your family. …
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Should You Medicate?

Posted on May 22, 2018Categories Autism, HistoryLeave a comment on Should You Medicate?

It’s the question of the age, isn’t it? There are pills to fix just about everything now. Why not autism? (tl;dr There aren’t any pills to fix autism.) Long before I had kids of my own, I was already outspoken about how over medicated our children were. I vowed that I would not medicate my …
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Public Displays of Bad Parenting

Posted on May 15, 2018Categories AutismLeave a comment on Public Displays of Bad Parenting

We all feel like bad parents from time to time. We let something slide that we shouldn’t have, we lose our cool and yell, we forget something important – or maybe that’s just me. Now it’s even worse because we get to measure ourselves against the perfection we see on Facebook and Instagram every day. …
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The Pictures on the Walls

Posted on May 8, 2018Categories HistoryLeave a comment on The Pictures on the Walls

I tried to tell Yoshi’s story to a new friend recently. We’re getting closer and she is familiar with our current situation but completely unaware of our past. We were chatting (isn’t that lovely sometimes, just chatting with friends?) and it came up – how much she didn’t know. Once I got her fairly caught …
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How Very Wrong She Was

Posted on May 1, 2018Categories History3 Comments on How Very Wrong She Was

We ran into each other at swim lessons. I hadn’t seen her in a while, maybe a couple of years. We used to be quite close, but life gets in the way sometimes and people drift apart. We had a lot to catch up on. Her youngest, her son, was just diagnosed with autism and …
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About this Blog

From the moment he was born we knew that raising Yoshi* was going to be a challenge. We couldn’t even name him. In the hospital he was known as The Ice Cream Man, courtesy of his big brother, before we settled on something that wasn’t quite so limiting in career choices. Today everyone “knows” that he is autistic but most people are missing the rest of the story. It’s so much more than just ice cream and autism.

As many as 1 in 59 children are being diagnosed on the spectrum today, and yet sometimes it feels like no one understands what you’re going through. It can be a very lonely experience and I would love to be here with you.

*We did not go from The Ice Cream Man to Yoshi. We let him pick his own pseudonym for this blog.

About Me

I am a full-time mom and wife, a part-time office employee, and a whenever-I-can-make-the-time writer, raising a teenager and a special needs child. I collect socks and doctors of all specialties. I may have an unhealthy relationship with my Fitbit, Starbucks, and Netflix.

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