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How We Finally Got Through a Trip to the Store

May 13, 2011

One of the ongoing problems we’ve had here that we’ve felt most depressed about has been our J-Man’s fear and loathing of most stores and many public places in general. This began about a year ago when he had a full-blown panic attack at Target, a place we’d been to countless times previously. We tried [...]

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Two Be or Not Two Be?

March 13, 2011

[This is a post written in two different eras of our lives. It's about the question we wrestled with for so long regarding whether to have a second child, which I thought of as "Two Be or Not Two Be?" The first part contains some thoughts I wrote in 2009 about three weeks before Dale [...]

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Routines, Predictability, and Just Getting to School in the First Place

February 14, 2011

[Thanks to Danette Schott at Help! S-O-S for Parents for including this as part of her February "Best of the Best" feature on school issues as they relate to invisible special needs! Go read all the great posts she's collected this month from some top notch bloggers, and while you're there check out the previous [...]

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In Remembrance of My Hero

September 23, 2010

As long-time readers may remember, my grandmother passed away this year on Valentine’s Day after a long fight against ovarian cancer. The loss we’ve felt as a family is nearly impossible to describe. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. I miss her so much I can hardly type this. Today [...]

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Autism, Meltdowns, and Sherlock Holmes

March 7, 2010

“When you remove the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes Meltdowns – or perhaps we should call them ‘strongly, vocally, and dramatically expressed opinions’ – have become an all-too-frequent occurrence around here lately. I’ve read many posts and heard many stories from parents of autistic children talking about their [...]

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Just People

September 10, 2009

I’ve been thinking lately about the Just People. And the Should People. And especially the Should Just People. You know them. You may have even been them. I sure was! “Why don’t you JUST make him do it?” “You SHOULD go GFCF because it helps all kids with autism.” “You SHOULD JUST ignore him when [...]

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Interrupting the Loop

June 17, 2009

For quite a while now, the J-Man has been a Lego-maniac. We see this as a very good thing as he wouldn’t touch building blocks of any kind for forever – we suspect for a variety of sensory – particularly tactile – fine motor, and other motor planning/spatial relating sorts of issues. Like many other [...]

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What Blogging for a Year Has Taught Us

February 16, 2009

This week marks our one-year anniversary of blogging. And what a long, strange trip it’s been already. Join us as we look back and look forward this week. First, here are a bunch of things we’ve learned along the way so far, though it’s hardly comprehensive! There are a lot of good people in this [...]

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