Thanks for all the compliments. Appreciate it!

I added an Archives widget, at the bottom of the first sidebar. I’m not super-thrilled with it, but it’s something. There are a bunch of improvements I want to make, and that’s been one of them. Thanks for nudging me off my butt to do it!

The archives sections only list 10 or 15 posts at a time, so if one month has way more – which most do – you still have to scroll down to page through and they show up in reverse chronological order, which makes reading forward a pain. Not sure how best to fix that. I’ll look into that at some point. You’re right, though. Some people do read through in order like that; I’ve just been slow to fix this.

I’m not sure whether to say thanks for being referenced or not.

Tim – I’m glad you left the archives untouched. My sense is that, among autie-parent blogs, yours is relatively unique in capturing in-the-moment responses to an autism diagnosis. In my own case, I didn’t start blogging till a year and a half later, and thinking back is a very different experience to writing about things in real time.

Am enjoying the archives immensely. Two of the many things that have resonated with me… your use of the term “sweet spot” to describe those well-regulated moments when the sensory barriers to learning have been alleviated; and, this quote: “Joining the ‘autism community’ has been like joining Christianity after living your whole life in another galaxy. ” Wow, did you nail it.

I’ll wend my way through eventually. Meanwhile, a blog-layout suggestion… I wasn’t finding any intuitive way to get back to your earliest posts, back before you got your feed set up. May I suggest an archives widget, one of those sidebar menu thingummies that categorizes posts by month and year? I also find those useful for a quick sense of how much posting has gone on at a blog, and for how long.

Did you see you got referenced in a comment on my Shameless Self-Congratulation” post?

We’ve been blogging almost a year now. The early articles are kind of interesting history since we did not at all think he was autistic then. We left them in the archives because it’s good for people to see that we all have trouble figuring out what’s going on at first. The whole of the story is important, even with its missteps.

I believe I need to go back and read your entire archive. In all my spare time, and all. When did you start this blog?!