School

One Inch Closer

August 26, 2010

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu We recently had our annual IEP meeting, which we are thankful beyond words is actually a fun experience for us. We feel like we completely lucked out in getting great teachers, therapists, parents, students, and administrators! While the J-Man had several very [...]

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If ignorance is wisdom, we’re all gods here

June 3, 2010

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin We have been people of extremes around here lately. I’ve been burning the candle on three ends with work projects and am at that stupid kind of tired right now. Mary has been going full on at work [...]

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I Have a Dream for Autism

January 18, 2010

I humbly ask Dr. King’s forgiveness for borrowing from his eloquence and for the meager quality of my own words as I draw from his gift to us, one of the most transcendent speeches in our history. All generations after him will be asked to tell about their dreams for our world. Here are some [...]

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Like a candle

December 5, 2009

For the past few days, we have been schedule freaks. OK, everyone except Dale Jr. He does what he does, when he wants to do it! For everything else, we have pre-planned, pre-made where available, and pre-decided, all before the kids get out of bed in the morning, or after they go to sleep at [...]

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Trying to Get Perspective

November 29, 2009

These past weeks have been a serious reality check for us. All of us have been sick, hurt, or both at one point or another. Not surprisingly, this has weakened both our physical and emotional defenses. That’s a nice way of saying that we’ve turned into a bunch of grumpy, rundown, sick people who aren’t [...]

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In Dreams Asleep

November 17, 2009

I wrote in “In Dreams Awake” about a dream I had that came true not long ago. Now I wish to write about another dream I had a few weeks back. It’s rare for me to remember dreams at all, and nearly unheard of for me to remember them in this much detail. So here [...]

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Is “Asperger’s” on the way out?

November 5, 2009

It’s that time again when they update us on the progress of how the clinical definitions of autism may be redefined in the next version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. (Read more about this in our The Clinical Definitions of Autism, Asperger’s, and PDD-NOS post from a while back.) [...]

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All the Good Things

October 2, 2009

My health has just been for crap lately, so crawling out from under my self-pity and general groaning – which I’m not good at in general – has required some serious conscious effort on my part. Thankfully, the J-Man has his ways of snapping me out of it with yet more astonishing new things he’s [...]

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