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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…
Book Reviews - "Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About – A Teenage Girl with High-Fun

I Teach Autism’s favorite independent publisher AAPC has come through again with another wonderful resource to help teach students with high functioning autism. We highly recommend this book for it’s uniqu…
Our Child’s First Sleep Over

This post was written by my wife, Natalie, and editted by me, Stuart. This is, in her words, how Cameron’s very first sleepover went and how she handled issues when/as they came up. We autism parents envy other…
Dear Friend Hesitant to Interact With My Special Needs Child:

Dear Friend Hesitant to Interact With My Special Needs Child: I know my child makes you nervous. It’s okay. Really. I still love you.
Thankful for Friends and Fruit

So Annie’s been on the anxiety medication for a couple of months now, she is slightly less rigid and we are having less tear storms and more ability to articulate her worries and concerns. That is all great. Af…
The Right People, Helping at the Right Time

When I say provision do you think of food? Ordinarily I would too, though "I'm not a big eater." Ha! However, let me go on record as saying there are more important provisions than food. When I look back at our journ…
Example of Imaginary friends.

This one still makes me cringe even today, eight years later.
Friendships and Autistics

I often hear people talk about how important friendships are, to have friends, to be social, to interact with your fellow human beings. Sometimes I question this because really, who says that you have to? Who says tha…
An Unusual Play Date Story

Benny craves friendships and has made a few close friends over the past three years. It takes a solid, strong and insightful child to make it past the first few play dates with Benny. Benny often ignores his friend…
The importance of friends in Autism

I’ve often found the concept of friendship quite complicated. So many people try to define it with inspiring quotes such as “a friend is someone running to you when everyone else is running away”…