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Noise seems to have become a bit of a theme around here, if not part of a sort of soundtrack. Charlie’s sensitivity to sounds—something he never had until this year—-is so great that he plants his hands over his ears soon as I try to turn on the car radio. Motorcycles, police and ambulance sirens, […]
“School tomorrow!” Charlie told me with his best grin this morning. He’d slept in, had breakfast around 11, practiced cello with a little coaxing. His internal clock is ticking away: Two days off and it tells him, that was the weekend, back to school. Imagine if everyone preferred to go without long weekends and always […]
All three of us were born in the USA: Jim on the East coast, me out West, and Charlie inbetween in a city on the Mississippi. Happy 4th of July (if you’re American)—-though this particular holiday isn’t alwyas the easiest for autistic individuals. Fireworks are loud and it seems that every town here in New […]
Composer Allen Shawn writes about a birthday meal for his 59-year-old twin sister, Mary, who has lived in an institution for the mentally retarded in Maryland since she was 8 year old, in last Sunday’s New York Times magazine. For years and years, the meal has been the same—”chicken salad, tomatoes, rolls with butter, iced […]
It’s Autistic Pride Day today; the day originated with Aspies for Freedom. It’s also the birthday of Jason Ross Artson who blogs at Drive Mom Crazy (a blog-name I’m quite fond of, by the way). I think we’ll be celebrating here by doing “the usual”: It’s Charlie’s first day of Extended School Year and of […]
As related, Charlie has been missing his dad ever since Jim said good-bye to us at the Newark Airport on Friday morning. So far we’ve X’d out two days, Friday and Saturday, on the picture schedule and Charlie’s been saying “Sunday, Monday, Dad; Sunday, Monday, Dad.” And, instead of looking panicked when he asks for […]
Charlie’s been off from school since Friday for the long Memorial Day weekend. Here in Jersey, Memorial Day signals the start of summer, as swimming pools open up and lifeguards return to their stations. We’d stayed mostly close to home (except for a kayak ride on the Hudson) and noted lines of cars […]
It’s Memorial Day here in the US: We’ve seen the red white and blue flying and people lining up to watch parades in honor of those who’ve served. Last night in the New York Times Magazine, I read the story of 27-year-old Sgt. Shurvon Philips, who suffered severe traumatic brain injury (T.B.I.) after an anti-tank […]
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 […]
Hope you got the perfect gift for Mother’s Day—-Margaret Lenahan has. Her 16-year-old son, James, was diagnosed with autism around the time that he turned two; today, he is a junior in the Ryken program for special needs students at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, and a member of the varsity B basketball team for […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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