Fear

Letter to a Struggling Parent

November 15, 2011

To my friend and fellow wanderer in this wilderness, I wanted to write you this letter because I know you’ve been clinging to the end of your rope, digging your fingernails into jagged holds until they break and bleed, desperate to not fall. I know you’re so damn tired you can hardly stand anymore. I [...]

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What Does ‘Strong’ Mean to You?

October 14, 2011

I’m going to ask the question in the title of this post again at the end, but I want to first bring up a few things I’ve thought about concerning what ‘strong’ means in our lives as parents of autistic and special needs children. I’ve had a lot of conversations with people about how difficult [...]

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Our Last Trip to the Dentist – or That Thing I Haven’t Wanted to Talk About

October 10, 2011

There’s no nice way to say this. Our last trip to the dentist a couple months ago was traumatizing. I haven’t really wanted to talk much about it. It was that bad. Let me preface the rest of this by saying that it had nothing to do with the dentist or the staff. Unlike our [...]

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Talk to Me

September 1, 2011

You may have guessed this, but in case you didn’t know, Tim and I are introverts. We can handle being social in very small doses, with only a few people at a time – where we can do some serious talking – but then we need a good amount of time to recover! Big parties [...]

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There Are No Shortcuts – Ideas For Making Better Therapy Decisions

August 14, 2011

This is a post about how we can make good decisions about therapies for our children. But first, I need to set the scene a bit. The details of your story and ours may vary, but the emotions from which most all parents make decisions about therapies are very similar. I believe you’ll make better [...]

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Lessons from the Road – One Year Later

July 30, 2011

One year ago today, I started running again after many years. My resolutions from The Great Burnout last year were to run and change my diet. That was basically it, though each involved massive lifestyle changes. But my what changes they have wrought in my life. If you’ll indulge me a bit, here are some [...]

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When Medical Emergencies Attack Your Spouse

July 28, 2011

In case you’ve wondered where we’ve been, we’ve had quite the chaos this month. The main crisis involved the rapid deterioration of Mary’s health early in the month. She started getting sick, and it got much worse. She was admitted to the hospital about three weeks ago, and she had major surgery a few days [...]

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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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