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Earlier this month I wrote about walking and talking with Ralph Savarese, author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption—-at 11am on Monday, June 25th, you can hear him speaking live on NPR on the Diane Rehm show.
My sister mom-blogger MothersVox has written about the book—-and here is her photo of […]
“Hopeful but realistic” is how Ralph Savarese, a professor of English at Grinnell College, describes the message of his book, Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption. Savarese’s 14-year-old son, DJ, wrote the last chapter of the book. An article in today’s Daily Iowan opens by quoting DJ writing about himself:
“I’m reasonable. […]
Autism is referred to as “the fastest evolving disorder in medical science” by journalist and autism mother Barbara Fischkin in today’s Huffington Post. As the source of this statement, Fischkin cites an unnamed Columbia University psychiatrist who testified at a New York State Legislative hearing at an unspecified date “earlier this year.” Her post […]
Newton’s first law of motion states:
Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
Allow me to interpret this law in regard to my son Charlie who is rarely “at rest” as in “sitting still.” (Even when Charlie is sitting, his […]
Up High in the Trees is a novel told from the perspective of eight-year-old Sebby Lane by Kiara Brinkman due out in July. Sebby’s mother dies suddenly and he and his father go to the family summerhouse, where Sebby writes letters to his favorite teacher back home. Described as an “unusual little boy who experiences […]
Rage.
Do you ever feel it? Or maybe I should say, need I ask?
As the parent of an autistic child doing my best to take care of him, to represent his needs before bureaucrats at an IEP meeting or to medical professionals who nod and that’s all, to ignore a random passerby who has stared: […]
Why, indeed?
Ralph Savarese explains why he and his wife, Emily, chose to adopt DJ, a non-verbal “badly abused, autistic 6-year-old from foster care” in an op-ed in today’s LA Times—-for the full story, see his book Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, which is due out tomorrow from Other Press. Savarese’s LA Times […]
In an essay in today’s Salon entitled Psych meds drove my son crazy, Minnesota novelist Ann Bauer writes about what happened when her “unique and funny and odd” autistic son was misdiagnosed at 17 as psychotic, and put first on an antidepressant and then on neuroleptics (Abilify and then Geodon) that made him “crazy”:
In reality, […]
I guess everyone wants to make the next Rain Man—-the next Academy Award-winning movie that features an autistic character. The April 25th Variety announced that Warner Bros. Pictures has bought the rights to Daniel Tammet’s memoir, Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. Almost a year ago there […]
It was a cold, wet, blustery Monday here by us. It was tragic. It was why the words of the poet can seem to sound too true:
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
It is never just a “spring rain,” but it pours: It […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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