In answer to my question, What are the ingredients of a compelling autism blog, an important figure in that field listed three: news, science, and personal accounts. But as I approach my son’s first IEP (Friday) I wonder what good blogging or any kind of writing does. If you have [...]
And speaking of Darwin, this little girl is a cartooning machine, impressing her teachers with her drawing and writing prowess. S is quite an artist himself as any friend of this blog would know. He’s been drawing since he was a little shy of two, producing tens [...]
Shaq and Kobe are the Big Legendaries. Could S be the Big Darwin? In this interesting article a Prof Michael Fitgerald diagnoses the famous shell/insect hoarder with Aspergers.
“Asperger’s syndrome gave Darwin the capacity to hyperfocus, the extra capacity for persistence, the enormous ability to see detail that other people missed, the endless [...]
On President’s Day he looks at me across the table and asks if he has to go to Spanish anymore. This is an enrichment add-on at his school. A Spanish teacher takes him and a few other children to another room and teaches them numbers, shapes and colors and how to say hello, how are [...]
I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea,
And the wind rose in the morning sky,
And one was rigged for a long journey.
–From “The North Ship” by Philip Larkin
I went to pick him up and he was screaming at a little girl: “Don’t do [...]
Last night after his shower he asked if we could go to the junkyard. “Why?” I said. “So we can see the kitchen boom box.” (He’s had four boom boxes so far. I threw away the one in the kitchen. It didn’t work.) “Did you throw away the kitchen boom box?” “Uh-huh.” “We can see [...]
Yesterday, he was a perfect gentleman (after Meltdown Monday). Got dressed for mom, no problem. Great report from school. Only thing was his wandering around with M during free time, but as he explained to his teacher and me: “We were playing cats.” Floortime at home went great, after some false-starts and general boredom with [...]
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