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Exploring Nirvana is the title of a 97-page book of the works of artist Jessica Park of Williamstown, Massachusetts. As noted in The Transcript, the book was just released by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, which gave Park an honorary degree in 2003:
Park’s more recent acrylic paintings are defined by their exact, geometric […]
My Goldfish Ate My Cat offers a “turn the tables” story about a fish that yearns to “season and devour a feline.” That’s quite a conceit in and of itself—-further, the book’s author is 11 year old. As noted in C-Health, Alexandre Lynch has Asperger’s Syndrome. The book has already sold some 80 copies.
My son […]
We were walking down the West Side Highway in Manhattan on Saturday when Charlie started running and laughing. Jim and I saw that we were nearing the shed where you can take out a kayak into the Hudson River—-we had passed the shed back in April and met a retired longshoreman who’d noted how he […]
I never got around to making a list of last week’s top posts last week so here’s two weeks of “top posts” about autism. Rather than arrange them in chronological order, I’ve arranged them by topic:
My son Charlie turned 11 last Thursday, on May 15th. Life on the road with Charlie is my constant theme […]
Autism and Faith: A Journey into Community is a new resource for clergy, religious educators, and families of autistic children to develop “inclusive spiritual supports” for autistic individuals in religious settings. The 52-page guide was developed by the Autism and Faith Task Force of COSAC, New Jersey’s main autism organization, and the Elizabeth M. […]
I was interviewed in the May issue of Working Mother magazine in an article by Jennifer Owens entitled The Quiet Struggle: From heartbreak to hope: moms of kids with special needs. The mothers in the article have special needs kids of varying diagnoses (some with autism) and ages (3 years old; adults). One mother […]
In an op-ed entitled Foul Shots in yesterday’s New York Post, Robert Goldberg charts what could be called the rise and fall of the MMR vaccine. The MMR was developed by microbiologist Maurice Hilleman, “saved millions of lives around the world,” and—in one press conference in 1998—was said to be linked to digestive problems in […]
Tonight, Thursday, April 10th, I’m honored to be part of a Lit Café featuring writers on the autism spectrum:
Amy Gravino, student and author of the forthcoming The Naughty Autie: Not Your (Neuro)typical Dating Guide!, a book about dating and sexuality for adults and young adults on the autism spectrum
Jason Ross, Adaptations member, poet, and […]
“…….happy endings are possible, even if they’re not quite the endings originally envisaged.”
So an article in today’s Telegraph about love and Asperger’s syndrome describes the relationship between Sarah Hendrickx and Keith Newton. The couple met through internet dating:
……the first stage of their relationship was fiery and fraught. To Sarah, Keith was ‘a puzzle’. He’d […]
Roaming in the bookstore in a nearby university town, I lingered over the tables of new non-fiction and poetry; the neat stacks of new literary criticism, linguistics, and social science (and found one called Echolalias which was a highly, highly theoretical study of a very, very real phenomenon in our life); the sale books. I […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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