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Lining Things Up

Martin lines up things. I walked into my bedroom on Saturday only to find over one hundred Lincoln Log pieces saluting me from the baseboard. Yesterday I found crayons organized in the shape of a house. Beside it…
The Autism Ribbon

I often get criticized for using an image that can be linked to autism speaks - not by a lot of people, but by most other people with autism that I know. Today, in my first post at the Autisable website...I want to make…
Fabil Teaches

AOL occasionally highlights articles originally published for its Spanish-speaking audience. One of them was a profile piece on Diana Trevino-Wilson, whose expertise in graphic design led to a series of flash cards calle…
Autism Activities: Matching Game and Jigsaw Puzzle

I’ve been stealing ideas from Annie’s classroom teacher to make fun games for Heidi to play at home on her day off school. First up is a matching game or as Heidi calls it ‘Star Words’. Heidi i…
Charlie's Family

This is a story about Charlie and about our family and what it is like for us to be parents of a child who has autism. Unfortunately, I can’t tell much about how it is for him to live with us, so this is all a st…
The Good Kind of Conservative

Photo: ernstl Conservative. The word has multiple meanings depending on the context in which it's used. Most often in my neurotypical sphere, it's used in conversation about politics. Or religion. In another realm o…
Letter To A Bully

Sometimes, children with autism get upset easily and act out in frustration from not knowing what else to do. On the outside, they appear to us to be out of control. Sometimes it’s hard for others to understand what’s…
Miscommunication and the Unification of the Autism Community

Have I said before that I miss a lot of the stuff going on in the vastness of the interwebz relating to autism? I'm pretty sure I have. Those of you who read me on a regular basis know that my emphasis is on countering…
The Man with Ideas

Recently, someone found TeenAutism by searching “Can autistic teens have obsessive thoughts?” and probably stumbled upon the entire Obsessions category on my site. Because in Nigel’s case, you might as well ask, “Is t…
Birthday Bias

One of my friends (we'll call her A) recently posted a status update on Facebook that really upset me. Her daughter "M" (who has ASD) came home from school very excited about a birthday party invite. When "A" went th…