October 2008

From Research Studies to Wanton Self-Reflection

October 19, 2008

If your child is somewhere on the autism spectrum and you live reasonably near a university, it’s not unusual to get notices about research studies you can participate in. In our case, we live about 45 minutes away from UNC-Chapel Hill – home of TEACCH and all manner of ASD resources – so we receive [...]

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Thilly Thursdays – Joes, Bobs, the Race for the White House, and the Decent Into Political Asininity

October 16, 2008

JOE, MONTANA, Oct. 15 — After Senator John McCain last night invoked the name of “Joe the Plumber” over 20 times in the final Presidential debate, today Senator Barack Obama’s campaign sought—and quickly found—its own construction-based voter and adopted him as the new symbol of their campaign.     “Bob the Builder is the symbol [...]

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Building Blocks, Sequences, Memory, and Thoughts on Thinking

October 14, 2008

You may already know that it’s pretty common for autistic kids to line up, group, stack, or otherwise organize things in their environment. Order can be a very helpful way of making sense of their surroundings and feeling more comfortable in it. J-Man on the whole hasn’t seemed particularly concerned about this, though. Our house [...]

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Autism Ribbon Run 5K – Post “Race” Report

October 11, 2008

[Update - Somebody asked if I knew where to find the official results online for the race. I didn't wear the chip to get an official time - would be too depressing! - but I did find where the results are supposedly going to be if they were online yet. Go to Active.com and search [...]

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Playing Hurt and On the Road Again

October 10, 2008

Many of you with toddler and up-aged autistic kids know that they can be physically challenging – to say the least – to get to cooperate or transition from activity to activity. You also know that when they decide they want to do something, they’re going, and they will use all of their formidable strength [...]

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Wordless Wednesdays – “The World is My Canvas” Edition

October 8, 2008

[The kid who used to hate coloring has turned into our little artist.]

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Think Outside the Bun

October 7, 2008

[aka "In which Tim looks dazed and confused for a minute" or "Wherein the bun in the oven picture is explained"] Right before we had the J-man’s IEP meeting, I had been feeling hungry every night. EVERY little thing pissed me off, and I was hungry ALL the time. In fact, if I didn’t eat [...]

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More “Why I’ve not been blogging”

October 6, 2008

So, this getting old stuff? It sucks. After our super-awesome trip to WV (7 hours each way in the car, PLUS nobody lives less than 40 minutes from each other!), I was pretty tired. Let’s say very tired. Let’s say… I went to the doctor on Tuesday morning because I couldn’t catch my breath doing [...]

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