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Your Reactions to Autism: What Helps and What Doesn't.

Ever since Max was diagnosed with Autism, the reactions we've received have ranged from the expected to the surprising. Most family and friends have responded with love and support, seeking to understand what is happe…
Autism: Year 10 in Review

2011 was a good year. Connor, now ten and a half years old, is becoming quite the accomplished young gentleman. He attended fifth grade in a general ed classroom without a para or teacher’s assistant. He completed…
How Someone Can Help YOUR Special Needs Family

This is a follow up to How you can help a special needs parent. It may be better to read the original prior to reading this one. I know that my special needs family struggles many times and in many areas. I think tha…
Do you think?

So you're standing in line somewhere and feeling impatient. The line has been long and you're getting tired. Maybe someone ahead is working slow or someone else is getting confused. What ever the issue you know who it…
How to Ask for Help

The Beatles had it right: "Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody, Help, you know I need someone, help." Over the almost four years since we started asking for help for James, I've learned a lot about asking…
7 Ways to Help a Family With Autism

We've all heard the news: one in 91 children are now being diagnosed with autism in the United States alone. This is staggering. Today, almost everyone knows someone with autism. And yet, with all the talk about cures…
Share Your ASD Related Story

Submission date: 3/25/11 Original title: Senior Project! Presentation help? (: It's finally come back to haunt me! It's time to break down and work on this, and I need help. As of right now, I will be giving a presentat…
Picking up the Phone

Here's something I've noticed. When things get tough, it become exponentially harder to ask for help. I don't know if it's depression, the years growing up in a family that says yes to "can you ...." and no to "do you…
HELP!

On Christmas Eve, after HRH had his bath I sat him on my lap. I wrapped my arms around his body, pinning his arms to his chest. Mr LS straddled his legs, securing one of his ankles between his knees and proceeded to…
Help! His OCD is hard to deal with!

The aspie in my life relates better to female "friends." But, it's hard to deal with his OCD, obsession with these women. When he meets a woman (female) that he wants a relationship with obsessively, it's hard for me to…