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How Do You Plan For the Future?

These are my children. This is my heart and my entire life. Every one of them just as important. This photo shows so much personality. Nate, the clown in the front. The protective big brother Tyler with Sammy being a g…
Picture Day

I walked James in to school this morning, across the ghostly-white, foggy playground, to meet his aide. All around me were other parents, hustling their kids along too. Many of the boys sported hair that was precisely…
Needing a Bathroom Escort

If you’re here expecting something seedy, get your mind out of the gutter.
A boy, his brain and his heart

During dinner tonight, Cameron (my 6 yr old with Autism) began to explain that he did bad things yesterday because his brain told him too. His brain gave him the bad ideas and he had to listen to his brain and so th…
He Talks!

The boy doesn't want to play with me. Doesn't want me around him. Doesn't want me in the same room. He's sassy, but he's using language to sass me, so I'm going along with it. To an extent.
Trying to Build Bridges

Today, in an effort to build bridges with The Boy (whom I have spent the last few months arguing with more and more), it was decreed that we would have some Mummy and The Boy time.
Autism Frustration

People always ask me about my frustrations with a child on the spectrum. I tell them it really depends on the age and stage of William at the time. Sometimes the frustrations we deal with are based on his attitude and…
Example of Imaginary friends.

This one still makes me cringe even today, eight years later.
New Discoveries and New Fears

One week ago today we received a phone call from Gavin’s pediatrician’s office. They were calling because lab work had come back and there was a problem, rather two problems. Gavin apparently had low lgM a…
Seeing Special Needs Kids from the Outside

Special needs can be an insular world. Every day, I'm taking care of Jack or playing with him. Or I'm talking to professionals and other parents about our kids. Or I'm planning best strategies or curriculum or outings…