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Aspie in the Kitchen!

There are a couple of Aspergers traits that when they team up together I find very frustrating: A) Always being right B) Refusal to follow instructions One area that is really good for teaching children the value…
mé féiner

Translation: A mé féiner is a selfish person, someone who only looks after their own interests and possibly to the detriment of others. I first heard of "mé féin" at a dinner out with a bunc…
Asperger's and Autism? What's the difference?

Jeanne Millsap, a writer for The Beacon-News, a publication of The Chicago Sun Times, brings us to a relatively unexamined destination in the autism spectrum (and my third in a day that brought me to a Pennsylvania a…
Living in the Land of the Lost

I wonder who remembers the Saturday morning TV show, the Land of the Lost. Ok it was made into a rather bad movie recently (my opinion not an indictment of the film industry). For those who don’t know the…
The Problem with "Different, Not Less"

When I saw the Temple Grandin, HBO movie, I, like many other people, quickly adopted the phrase “Different, Not Less.” It’s such a powerful statement. Completing the Spectrum If you’ve foll…
Do people with aspergers have trouble getting along?

I don't claim to be an expert on this; it's a mere observation based on experience. I am under the belief that any two people with aspergers will in most circumstances not get along with each other. The reason why i…
One Year Aspie-versary

I really meant to do this two months ago, since February 4th marked the anniversary of "D" Day, but one thing does tend to drive out another, and here we are, nearly through April... There's no really organized way…
Roller Derby and Special Needs Parenting

Of Suburbia's 40 or so active league members, 10 have kids; of those, 3 of us have kids with special needs. One skater has two sons with Asperger's. The other has a son with ADHD and a daughter with an as-yet-undiagnos…
Remembering how it all began

Learning more and more about the range of symptoms that make up Asperger's Syndrome and the ways that many of those are manifested in my son has been tremendously eye opening, and such a great relief. For the longest…
It's the TYPICAL Stuff That Gets You

One of the more interesting aspects of raising kids with “issues” is that you tend to blame everything that they do or say on their disability. Now that is not to say that you allow them to get away with a…