Tag:autism
Letting Go of the Future
I saw something on Facebook recently where a mom of a child with severe autism was talking about the “last time”. Moms with normal (ha!) kids never know when that bedtime snuggle is the last, or it’s the last time you hold your little one in your lap. She was talking about how it’s different …
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World Autism Awareness Day
April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Call me biased, but it’s more important to me than breast cancer awareness, and that gets its own month and all the glory. Awareness, on its own, isn’t going to do much to help breast cancer. But being aware (and nothing more) could change everything for autism. People …
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Water, Water Everywhere…
Water is one of the most imperative human needs. It’s also one of the most deadly forces in the world. We’ve seen it a lot in the news lately: the devastating effects of hurricanes (stateside) and for those of you who do global news (I don’t) typhoons and tsunamis make me grateful to live where …
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House of Mirrors
This summer we took a trip through a house of mirrors. Actually, we took several trips through. We struggled a bit the first time. It’s very disorienting. It turns out, if we had just let Yoshi go and followed him, we all would have been fine. The second (and subsequent) trips through, I wasn’t as …
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So Here’s What’s NOT Wrong with My Son
This week, I’m writing a rebuttal to my own post (So Just What IS Wrong with Your Son?). I got a lot feedback last week, it just wasn’t what I expected. I really appreciate the love and support, but I think my message was misunderstood. First, yes. I have actually been asked that question plenty …
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I Choose “Not Busy”
It’s become a cute, almost fashionable thing to say that “being busy is a choice.” It’s my new favorite thing to hate. Maybe for some people busy is a choice. I envy those people. If I actually had a choice in the matter I would choose to not be busy. I promise. Ask anyone who …
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Celebrating the Little Things
This is not the kind of life that you measure in big victories. I have two children, one that is walking a more typical road and one that is… not. I know what it is like to celebrate milestones—and ache when they are missed. If we lived our “second” life waiting to meet the normal …
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It’s Dangerous to Compare
We’re all guilty of it. We compare ourselves to everyone, our children to their peers, our spouses to our friends’ spouses. We measure our houses, our cars, our jobs against others’. Everyone gets sucked into “Keeping Up with the Joneses” sometimes. It’s an especially dangerous game to play when you have a high functioning autistic …
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Back to School: Game Day
It’s here. The big day. All the planning and preparing is down to this. We’re back to school. I won’t really know if everything we did made enough difference until the end of the week (probably)*. Here’s to hoping. I had mixed feelings about the whole thing. Part of me is ready for the structure …
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Back to School: The Coaches Meeting
This is one of the biggest steps in preparing to go back to school. It’s something that I agonize over when it begins to consume my mind weeks before it actually happens. It’s time to meet the teacher. Last year the bar was raised to the moon. Realistically, I know that we will never have …
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