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Wednesday, 02 May 2012

Just be Mommy

It’s so amazing to me how much you can love your children. It is even more amazing to me how much children learn from their parents, and how much we, as their parents, learn from them.
Having a child on the Autism-Spectrum is challenging, but also provides meaningful opportunities. Our son, Bo, was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 2 1/2. We started therapies within 4-6 weeks of his diagnosis and have been going strong ever since. Yes our family has had many ups and downs, but somewhere among the three of us there has always been a core strength that gets us through the difficult times. That core strength being a combination of our faith, honesty, and love towards God, and each other.More Here...
Wickiffe center teaches children how to cope.

WICKLIFFE, Ohio – A new study shows nearly 75 percent of children with autism have been verbally bullied and half were ignored in social situations.

The Integrations Treatment Center in Wickliffe is working with a new treatment plan that is providing a positive vision for families and children in dealing with all aspects of autism. The plan is called he Success Approach. The whole idea is to involve more than one therapy in treatment.

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Autism Awareness, Perspective Taking and Freedom

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.

Obi-Won Kenobi, Return of the Jedi, LucasFilm,Ltd

OK, so what kind of blog about autism spectrum disorders would this be if every once in awhile I didn’t channel Star Wars, Star Trek, BattleStar Galactica and a few animes and mangas. Truth be told only the anime and mangas are the boy’s obsessions. Everything sci-fi belongs to me and me alone. While collegeman will allow himself to be pulled into a Star Wars movie especially during the lightsabre duels, Highschoolboy will regale you with anomalies, impossibilities and things he generally considers annoying about the entire genre. He is oh so not fun at these times and I end up throwing him out of the room.

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Tuesday, 01 May 2012

Choosing To Be A GFF

As we leave behind yet another Autism Awareness month, I’m reflecting on what that really means.

While I love the t-shirts, the puzzle pieces and the blue light bulbs because they shed light on what I believe is the most serious epidemic of our time, I hope that our society’s “awareness” lasts beyond the month of April. More Here...
A Good Start, But We Can Do More

April is my son Mikey’s birthday month. It’s also National Autism Awareness Month. Little did my wife and I know, seven years ago, that the month of April would be important to us for both reasons.

Most Americans are now aware, however slightly, that April is Autism Awareness Month. And you’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed the recent big news about the drastic increase in the number of children with autism (the rate is now at 1 in 88 children, and 1 in 54 boys, having some form of the developmental disorder). But, honestly, we have to ask ourselves how much that matters to those of us already touched by autism.More Here...
The Media's Creation of a Civil War Within the Autism Community

Nothing much gets my blood boiling more than outright, obvious attempts to pit people against each other. I wrote about it before about how we do it to ourselves but the most obvious problem is the media.

We’re all well aware of the practice of sensationalizing a headline to entice the reader… to get at least one more pair of eyes on them rather than the competition.

But when I saw a headline tonight and clicked on it, I was appalled. Not just because the headline didn’t match the story…. More Here...
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Yesterday morning, I got up at 6:30 A.M. to go downtown with my case manager to see about getting cash assistance to tide me over until I start working. It seems like they had already made up their minds before I got there and just needed me to sign the papers. Today, I am $102.50 richer than I was yesterday. I get $102.50 every two weeks, until I start working, at which point I lose the benefits. That's fine with me! I have no desire to stay on government funds any longer than I need to.

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Monday, 30 April 2012

Unlock Autism Book Giveaway Sweepstakes

This past month we've hosted several giveaway sweepstakes on our facebook page.

Now we end Autism Awareness month with a monster giveaway. More Here...
Stuff With Thing to ‘I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers: #AutismPositivity2012

(making music with the salt, pepper and sugar)

You may remember Annie’s post about how nervited she was about the concert at Federation Square.

I want to say thank you to all the supportive and helpful comments on that post, it really helped Annie make it through the lead up the day itself without falling apart.

On the morning of the concert we went into the city early and enjoyed a hot chocolate together before meeting up with her school mates for rehearsals just after 11am. We were able to explore the theatre while it was still mostly empty and help Annie adjust to the space. More Here...
My Response to “I wish I didn’t have Asperger’s” #AutismPositivity2012

A couple of weeks ago, someone somewhere googled the phrase “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers”. The phrase popped up in a blogging dashboard and struck the blogger as being particularly sad. She wished she could have answered.

We don’t know who it was. We don’t know where he/she lives. We have no idea if he/she found what he/she was looking for in that search. But, there are many of us in this world who feel that having autism is not something to be wished away so we decided to have a flash blog day today in an attempt to get our message to that individual and everyone else who needs to hear it! More Here...