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Wednesday, 08 February 2012

  • "Autistic football player an inspiration to many"

    Came across this last night, what a great story!

    Here's an excerpt (full story is here).
    Kyle Weafer had never played football before, but that wasn't the only obstacle to his goal of making the varsity team his senior year.

    Shoes. They were the biggest hurdle.

    Diagnosed with autism near age 3, Kyle has obsessions that define his world, and many of them posed a problem for playing football.

    But Kyle's commitment was stronger than his compulsions. He has so inspired his teammates and classmates at Blue Valley Northwest High School that he was one of 30 semifinalists for a Rudy Award, a national recognition that will go to a high school football player who embodies character, courage, contribution and commitment like Rudy Ruettiger, the famous Notre Dame football walk-on.

    Weafer came close, finishing as one of two runners-up for the award, announced Feb. 3. He won a $5,000 scholarship.

    ...

    More Here...

  • Do the proposed changes in the DSMV really matter?


    Wow. Sometimes I feel so out of the loop on things when it comes to the “autism community.” I recently read a rant on LeftBrain/RightBrain and in the comments you can see that these people know and obviously read each other’s blogs. That left me feeling kinna funny posting comments there.

    Like an outsider.

    But that’s always been an issue for me, hasn’t it? Yep! Sometimes it’s not meant that way but it is just how I perceive it. It is nothing intentional on that group’s behalf or no motives to exclude me. It just is.

    But the thing that I was commenting on was about the DSM reported changes. I guess they are going to eliminate PDD/NOS and Asperger’s.

    More Here...

  • Coping with Lack of Sleep and Having the Worst Meldown Ever + coping with lack of sleep


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    I was going through documents I have stored on my Mac and came across this. I’m unsure of the reasons I wrote it, though I think it was meant as a guest post concerning “Meltdowns and a lack of sleep” I don’t even think I sent it to whoever was meant to feature it, so I’ve decided, instead of cluttering up my Mac, I’ll share it here with my readers.

    The post comes in two sections, “Worse ever Meltdown” & “How I deal with the lack of sleep”

    Our Worst Ever Tantrum More Here...

Tuesday, 07 February 2012

  • Outing the ASD to the Family

    It is a pleasure today to introduce a special guest poster: Amanda from Diary of a Mad Cow.
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    Last year, my eight year old was officially diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome.

    It was, as those of you who have been through the process, an arduous and extremely emotional task. And yes, I was more than a little shocked when presented with the diagnosis.

    The shock surprised me, because I was expecting it. We’d actually been through the same process four years ago, because we suspected something was “not right”. Unfortunately, we were lumbered with an incompetent psychologist who, amongst other things, managed to screw up the assessment leaving us in a place of no official diagnosis, and the inability to redo the test as it was “too soon”. More Here...

  • The Autism Epidemic


    There are plenty of people these days who think there’s no autism epidemic. There have always been this many folks with serious impairments, the theory goes, but they were undiagnosed before. Diagnosis has gotten so much better that they’re finding them everywhere. One in 100 of those being born now, in fact.

    But I think there is an autism epidemic, and I’ll tell you why. Since the autism epidemic is now at least 20 years old (I peg the start at 1990), there are fewer people with accurate memory of severe autistics in the population from before that time. Of course we all remember odd ducks; they have always been with us. But what about the seriously impaired ones? They should have made up about 1 in 200 of the population from back then, undiagnosed, assuming that half of the autistics being diagnosed now are severe, and the other half are more like odd ducks. More Here...

  • 10 Things My Autistic Kids Wished You Knew: The Video

    I made this movie, based on my very popular post, “10 Things My Autistic Kids Wished You Knew“.

    Please feel free to use this video to help spread Autism Awareness, or to help educate those people in your life that may not understand the challenges our kids on the Autism Spectrum can face.

    If you do use this, please link back to this page. 

    More Here...

  • Standing Out With Autism

    We went to the Friday evening show of The Dinosaur Petting Zoo at the Tilles Center last week. We had to get their early to pick up our tickets for the general admission show; showing up at 4pm for a 5pm show. When other families started arriving, my wife’s first comment was “uh oh, it’s a little kid’s show”. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of children showing up for this puppet show were under 8 years old. Mike, our youngest of three and bona fide paleontologist-in-training, is 12 years old. More Here...

Sunday, 05 February 2012

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