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Kids are Weird, Man.
Edit: Now with a real, live, working link to the new blog! Sorry about that. Some of you might know that when I’m not writing, I’m teaching. This year, I’m working with a brilliant, hilarious, adorable kid I call Little G, and I’ve created a new blog to chronicle some of our adventures. We do…
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UnderDog Bikes in Roanoke, VA
A couple weeks ago, my husband and I took Thing One (so named because he arrived on the scene two minutes before his brother, Thing Two, and I don’t use their real names on here) up to Roanoke, VA for a quick overnight trip. It can be tough to find things to do with Thing…
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To the Cretin Who Wrote the Ugly Anonymous Letter About the Child With Autism
In case you missed it, some ugly person sent a hate-filled, ugly anonymous letter to the mother of a child with autism, suggesting that the child be euthanized, among other things. You can read my original post about it here. I’ve calmed down just a bit since I wrote that original post, and now I’m…
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Jellybean Philosophy
My little guy offered me a jellybean a little while ago. It was misshapen, long and tapered, nothing like the bean after which it was named. He held it out without comment, gripped it between two long, double-jointed fingers, and below the hood of his coat his eyes smiled out from behind his red-framed glasses.…
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The Autism Awareness Post
The handsome young man to your left is my son, Dylan. This photo was taken a couple days ago as he prepared to go out on a call to assist with a bad car accident. I like how he looks here: confident, relaxed, ready to get out there and help someone. Dylan is a pretty…
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The Migrating Patterns of Winged Canadians, and Other Mysteries
Thing one, as you know, is a lovely combination of brilliant and autistic. If he’s interested in something, he researches the hell out of it, studies it, lives in it. He can tell you everything you want to know about Star Wars, the solar system, Dungeons and Dragons; he knows a whole lot about a…
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Where the Hell is Lisa’s Car? Or, How My Kid Kicked Prepositional Ass
There’s a special kind of magic in homeschooling your kids. The closeness you feel as you sit side-by-side reading, the glee that bubbles over along with the lava that pours out from the homemade volcano, the omifuckinggod what was I thinking that goes along with trying to teach anything that isn’t 100% logic-based and static…
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The Pissed-Off Cat Theory of Autism and Education
Take one already cranky cat. Pull its tail until it tries to bite you. Stuff it in a small crate. Spray it with water. Dangle a hot dog in front of its nose, just out of its reach. Spray it again. A bunch, like, till it looks like it got caught in a rain storm.…
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Autism and Oatmeal
My son, thing one, is 13 and has autism-Asperger syndrome, to be exact. Now this isn’t one of those Poor Me posts, or Look How Much I’m Doing for My Wonderful but Challenging Child, or some shit like that. He’s only called autistic because he needed some therapies, and they weren’t covered without an official…
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