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Very late on Monday, Charlie and I took a red eye flight back to New Jersey from San Francisco. He set his mouth, clutched my dad’s blue jacket to his chest and handed it back just as we got into the line for the security check. No crying or painful encounters with airport security personnel. […]
Main event of the week: Charlie’s last day in elementary school.
And, yes, Tuesday.
In the comments, a link to a Press-Enterprise article about an 11-year-old, Nicholas Dooley, who has autism and possibly another psychiatric disorder.
So Goeth the Autism Epidemic
The June 6th Times (UK) has an article on The autism epidemic commeth, which heralds the publication […]
Charlie has a few days off between the last day of school and the start of Extended School Year on Wednesday. We’ve only been visiting my family on the west coast once a year at Christmas for some time, as, for some years, the airplane rides had gotten too taxing for Charlie (and Jim and […]
Charlie’s teacher sent home a form about the field trips that are planned for summer school. I checked “yes” for all of them and then kept misplacing the form. First it found its way to my desk, gravitated atop the Language Master, and briefly completely disappeared. I wanted to stick it in Charlie’s backpack but […]
Thanks very much to everyone for watching the Good Morning America piece on Controversial New Movement: Autistic and Proud—-Activists Say Stop Looking For a Cure and Accept People As They Are, and for everyone who’s commented here—a lot to think about, and then all the commentary on the ABC news story. Some more commentary ’round […]
En route to go swimming at my college in Jersey City, the wail of a police siren behind us made Charlie cringe and cry out. I explained that it was a police car in a hurry to help someone—maybe there was an accident. Charlie sat up straight in the middle of the back seat and […]
Charlie kept saying this very phrase—-”You know you have the answer“—over and over as we drove home from the beach last night. He had a big smile on his face; he’d been calling out the name of his teacher and favorite instructor (as aides/paraprofessionals are called in my school district) over and over. It was […]
Charlie’s been doing really well this past year to the point that sometimes Jim and I try to change things up a little too fast or much for him. I guess you could say, we get used to Charlie being able to do “whatever” and then we just go ahead (blunder on) and make some […]
Depending on what website you are reading, the past week, the first week of June 2008, will go down as The Week Vaccines Got Green, or David Kirby Went to Parliament and Briefed 1 MP, 4 Lords, and a few others, or a really good autism book was released in the UK, or I […]
Yes, our family (as in all three of us) attended two parties this weekend.
On Saturday afternoon we drove into Queens via the Goethals Bridge, the Verranzano Bridge (Charlie sat up to get the full view of being close to the ocean), and Brooklyn (after going through Sunset Park and seeing too many interesting looking Chinese […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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