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The Ninth Circle of Hell

May 30, 2018Autism, HistoryLeave a comment

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?

May 22, 2018Autism, HistoryLeave a comment

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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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.