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We’re down to the last week-plus of Autism Awareness Month 2008. We’ve been asked to wear our awareness, to eat and shop and to give $$$$ in support of autism—not that my autistic son has been asked or even expected to do anything in honor of the month. The funny, or curious, or ironic thing […]
I heard a drawer open and noted Charlie in the kitchen, a roll of Scotch tape in his left hand. He hummed and mumbled while leaning over the counter. There were soft ripping sounds: Tape tearing. On glancing into the kitchen, I didn’t see any gigantic wads of tape accruing on the counter and went […]
“Reinvent date night” proclaims the New York Times (on February 14th, “heart day” no less): Doing something different, exciting and new is, for long-married couples, the “simple prescription for rekindling the romantic love that brought [you] together in the first place.”
Don’t know about you, but “going out,” on a “date” or not is a fairly […]
I’ve gotten my valentines (and gave a better-than-chocolate-one to my students in the form of “no weekly quiz”). Phoebe passed on a link to Donors Choose—–if you search under the word autism, you’ll come to this page, on which a number of teachers and therapists have posted requests for toys, puzzles, pictures for flashcards and […]
In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, the February 13th New York Times had an article about romantic relationships that persevere in the face of great differences—-vegetarians/vegans falling for carni/omnivores:
Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love. But in an age when many people define themselves by what they will eat […]
Is this American’s favorite mom? asks the Gainesville Times about Donna Aldridge, who has an autistic son, Ryan, and a speech-delayed daughter, Julie, and whose husband nominated her for NBC’s America’s Favorite Mom, with the winner to be announced on May 11 (which is, surprise surprise, Mother’s Day). I have to say, I know many […]
March was the first month in the calendar of the ancient Romans and it makes sense to me that the Romans, originally an agricultural people, would being the year in the spring, when new things are growing and there’s all that new energy of new green things. As it’s February 2nd (”Groundhog Day” here in […]
2007 ended with the disability community and parents rallying together to protest the Ransom Notes ad campaign; 2008 began with a call for participants in a new study that hopes to identify and treat autism in infants of autistic siblings. Some highlights:
A Christmas StoryA Christmas day post that discusses the Judge Rotenburg Center; […]
The title of this post is an English translation of a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dauer im Wechsel……….yes, I do realize that it is sometime on Saturday, or sometime on the first weekend of 2008 for you, and so not the best moment to start talking about German Romanticism.
But yes, the photo is […]
Charlie ended 2007 one of his favorite ways: A train trip into lower Manhattan, a walk through Chinatown and Soho, and dinner at Whole Foods (it being New Year’s Eve, he got a double-course dinner of sushi and spring rolls). And now we’re back in Jersey and I’m trying to get some scratched-up Wiggles […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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