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The dotted lines being on a wall (as shown here): Sometimes that’s what I’ve felt I’ve had to do to make things work out for Charlie, to let the sunshine through via places that no one else could see a way through.
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A couple of years while teaching this poem to an English Literature 101 class at a mid-sized university in New Jersey (it’s not where I teach now), I asked my class what “green” signifies. While we live in New Jersey, I grew up in California (think Berkeley not Los Angeles) and — having started to […]
A Difficult Youth Is A Good Thing for a Fisher——um, a fish, according to a study about the Bluehead Wrasse reported about in Science Daily back in February:
[Scientists] discovered that fish larvae that survive a long, rough, offshore journey eventually arrive at a near shore reef in good condition, and that they thrive afterwards.In contrast, […]
“It wasn’t like a switch being turned off….It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down.”
I’ve read this quote from Dr. Jon Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, in more than a few news stories and most recently in one today in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Poling uses the metaphor of a dimmer switch […]
Classes started at the college where I teach last Wednesday, so I knew it would be a busy week. As the posts below suggest, the past week turned out to be far busier, and intenser, and more emotionally wrenching, than I had bargained for.
Wishing the family of Katie McCarron much peace: Katie will be remembered.
Autism […]
Charlie pulled two books out of the book shelf. Saying “Blue ocean!” he pointed to a patch of blue on the cover of The Littlest Angel. Saying “green bed!” he pointed to a pink cloud that, I suppose, could be considered to have sort of a chaise lounge shape. I pointed to each letter of […]
It helps me to understand our life with Charlie and autism as a journey whose map is being made as we take each step, whose roads are a constant crossroads, with bumps and bends and uphills. Autismville referred to a related metaphor for life raising an autistic child—running a marathon—in a comment on a previous […]
I went to Atlanta this past weekend in order to give a paper on the use of metaphor in the representation of autism and……. Okay, I’ll just cut to the quick.
I was one foot away from Jenny McCarthy as she interviewed parents about vaccines and autism at the National Autism Association conference. A camera man […]
Who don’t you know who:
(1) Knows someone with autism.
(2) Knows someone who has a child, relative, or friend with autism.
(3) Knows about autism.
When my son was first diagnosed back in July of 1999, it was more than a few times that I heard, “do you mean he likes art”? Indeed, in the movie Paradox Lake, […]
Under Dr. Elizabeth Mumper, A new citadel for autism—the Rimland Center for Integrative Medicine—is opening on Confederate Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia. The new center is named after Dr. Bernard Rimland, who wrote the 1964 bookInfantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implication for a Neural Theory of Behavior, which argued that autism was a biological […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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