I am sorry I haven’t posted much lately but I have been deep in thought and trying to get through some things. End of school year pressures. This time of year he always kind of runs out of steam. Last year they signed him out of school about now because he was pretty much done. [...]
May 11, 2012
Special Needs Ryan Gosling Week 14
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It has been a while since I participated in this wonderfully fun event created by the wonderful Sunday over at Adventures in Extreme Parenthood. Guess just been too run down and well just haven’t felt up to it. Today I really felt inspired so hopefully you like my contributions & maybe you will also join [...]
May 8, 2012
Going Low-Gluten/Low Casein
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Okay for starters let me first admit that I have read a lot about the GF/CF diets and had various thoughts about them. I don’t want to say I thought it was total BS but maybe partial BS or at least exaggerated. Like you stop giving your child wheat and they start talking if they [...]
May 4, 2012
Final commenting period now open for #DSM-5
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The final comment period is now open. I truly hope that you will comment (instructions below) to help keep the diagnostic criteria. I was originally okay with it all being called autism. I have no problems with my son being diagnosed autistic. What I have an issue with is how so many children would possibly [...]
May 3, 2012
Reflections on the #AutismPositivity2012 flash blog
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Reblogged from The Third Glance: Wow, I’m still reeling from the #AutismPositivity2012 flash blog. What an amazing experience. Monday really was an incredible outpouring of wonderfulness from the Autism blogosphere and beyond. I spent all day yesterday (quite literally) glued to my computer – I did much of the webmaster duties for the flash blog [...]
May 2, 2012
Parenting is Hard!
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Last night was one of those nights. He has been off schedule and off his meds for about a week because the plan failed. My medical issues got worse (post for another day) and the two of them just well I don’t know. I do know it could have been worse. There was just a [...]
Apr 30, 2012
Neo letter to “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers”: #AutismPositivity2012
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I understand not feeling like you fit in. It took me a long time to accept me for who I am. Growing up I was made fun of A LOT. I never quite fit in. I never knew what to do. In high school I was miserable. All of the other kids always looked better, [...]
Apr 26, 2012
How a Teenager Spreads Autism Acceptance
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My son has suffered from anxiety, depression and bullying in the past. It was so sad that other kids did not accept him. Lately he seems to be less depressed but he honestly doesn’t talk to me as much as before due to teenagitis. Anyways he spends a lot of time playing video games online. [...]
Apr 24, 2012
Take a Left at the Moon and Autism Acceptance Giveaway!
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So I had been thinking that I have not featured a blog for April. As many of you have probably been aware this has been a roller coaster of a month. But I was starting to think I should feature another blog because well I just should. I hope I haven’t already missed a month [...]
Apr 23, 2012
To “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers”: An #AutismPositivity2012 Flash Blog Event
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A couple of weeks ago, someone somewhere googled “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers”. The phrase popped up in a blogging dashboard and struck the blogger as being particularly sad. She wished she could have answered. We don’t know who it was. We don’t know where he/she lives. We have no idea if he/she found [...]
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