It’s not about chemicals. It’s not about vaccines. It’s not about diet. It’s not about nutrition. It’s not about curing. It’s not about me versus you. It’s not about you versus me. It’s not about who’s right. It’s not about who’s wrong. It’s about a Spectrum. It’s about varying challenges, and rewards. It’s about coming…
Category Archives: Dealing With Public Perceptions
Yes, I DO raise my kids differently
Out of the hundreds of wonderful and supportive comments and emails I receive, every once in a great while I apparently piss someone off with something I share. Instead of writing back to this one person, I decided to share my response here in case anyone else felt the same way. When I mentioned a…
We’re Not So Very Different…
I sat backstage tugging off her ballet slippers, coaxing her to help put crayons away amidst a giggling knot of pint-sized ballerinas. With the recital just days away, it was a relief to finally be done with the dress rehearsal and my thoughts wandered toward dinner and bedtime plans as I scrabbled after one last…
The art of talking about your child
Oftentimes, people who don’t Max that well—coworkers, neighbors, acquaintances—ask questions about him. I’ve mastered the art of the succinct, upbeat response. Here’s how it usually goes: They say: “How is Max doing?” I say: “Well! He’s really coming along.” What I really mean: He amazes us each and every single day because he’s doing so…
Some Thoughts as Autism Awareness Month Comes to an End…
The month of April is coming to a close, and with it ends Autism Awareness Month. However, so many of us don’t have an end to Autism. It is an ongoing, daily struggle filled with accomplishments, setbacks, discoveries, joy and pain. It is a journey, and the topography changes moment by moment. However, it is…
Blog Review
Hi de ho there! “Maddy” here, an interloper. I’ve nipped over from “home” to cast my evil eye over some blogs belonging to other mum’s of special needs children. So hold on tight as there will be none of that fluffy wuffy American type of kindly review. [Oopsie I meant Canadian of course!] Now you…
Blind Photographers
Think you can’t take good photos? Stop your whining…you have absolutely no excuse. Blind Photographers is a blog and photo archive of work by…yes…photographers who have visual challenges, including complete blindness. The BlindSighted Project allows members of Blind Photographers to explore challenges related to our eyesight, challenges that affect our image-making process. This project is…
The Aspergian Teenage Mind (in all of its wonder)
Hi! My name is Shash, and I write at Diary of a Crazed Mommy. My son, Spiff, is 14 and is an Aspergian teenager in middle school. I thought it would be a great way to get to know him better if I kept him up past his bedtime (non-medicated, and on a school night,…
Please don’t pity me because I have a kid with special needs
Saturday, my friend Sharon called. She’s an old friend from college, we talk a couple of times a year. She and her family are coming to our area Easter Sunday weekend, and she was going to stay at our house. When I spoke with her last week, she thought that maybe our family and hers…
3.21.09 Celebrate Down Syndrome And Help Bring Kellsey Home
Around the world today people who love a child with Down syndrome are celebrating the beauty found within an extra chromosome. http://momseatofpants.blogspot.com 50 years ago most parents of a child with Down syndrome were told to hand their newborn off to an institution, because these children weren’t able to learn and would be nothing but…