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Until a rather large truck (a several-wheeler) squoze too close against my car a year ago, a magnet of the puzzle ribbon adorned its left rear-end. That part of the car was in need of some repairs after that accident and we never got around to putting on a new magnet. And too, there […]
Charlie rearranged the three folded-up fleece blankets at the foot of his bed and called for Jim: “Da-ad! Da-ad!”
“‘Hey pal, I’ll be in to talk to you,” said Jim who was promptly told by Charlie “lie down!”—whereupon, Jim and I had to agree, it might not be a bad idea to get Charlie a […]
Last night I went to see a friend who had recently gotten tenure at the college where he teaches. We started graduate school together back in 1990 and have been through various jobs, households, cities. Another friend who had also started her studies with us walked in the door, and there was a lot […]
We went bowling at Lucky Strike in Philadelphia this afternoon with our friend Hal. Charlie’s gone bowling twice before, and both times with those “bumpers” on the lanes, but not today. Jim stood behind him and helped Charlie put his fingers into the three holes and send away the ball, which promptly rolled into the […]
This is the name of an art exhibit “insight into autism and beyond through the artworks of Donna Williams” in Adelaide (Australia) that runs through the 12th of February. Williams is an artist and author of autobiographical books about her life with autism, textbooks about autism and poetry; you can go here for more information […]
There was Mr. Richard, who had a disabled brother; at least a dozen special needs (many autistic) kids were on his bus (and no bus matron). There was the older woman from Russia who told me “your driveway is not convenient for me” and “my eyes are not good.” There were the two women, both […]
Yes it’s for the exercise and with the hope of Charlie picking up some new skills of catching and throwing and shooting: These are all reasons why we signed Charlie up for Special Olympics basketball. But it’s also for the reason that Gemma Gallagher states on watching her 14-year-old son, David, playing basketball with the […]
“BBDO” meaning “Brooklyn–Bowery—D train—whOle fOOds,” rather than a certain New York-based advertising agency that is behind the New York University Child Study Center’s “Ransom Notes” campaign. I’ve obviously been a little caught up in responding to the Center’s “public awareness” campaign (a word whose military overtones I dislike, as if the whole point of […]
Occasionally something happens, usually something small and fleeting, and I just know, that flicker of a moment sums up so much about our life with Charlie, with autism (and “with autism” is the right term here, I think, rather than “autistic”). It sums up what it feels like, and how far Charlie has come, and […]
Well of course, we all know that, you think……while people cannot agree on what causes autism, autism is not something a child “catches” like the common cold. You don’t “get” autism through contact with an autistic person: We know this.
But sometimes one feels a bit otherwise, as Lisa Dowler writes today in Newsday. Dowler’s […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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