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So after a sunny Sunday topped up with exuberant bike riding and one of his all-time favorite meals at his all-time favorite Jersey hamburger stand, Charlie woke up on Monday morning with heavy-duty sniffles, a gurgly cough, and a hot forehead. Jim had gone out to wait for the bus while I got Charlie ready […]
Hoodies banned at some NJ schools, the September 12th NJ.com reported.
Fortunately, not Charlie’s school: What would one do without a soft blue hood to pull over one’s ears and head, whatever the weather? And now that it’s gotten fall crisp and cool, a hooded sweatshirt isn’t just fashion, it’s necessary, especially while waiting for the […]
Apparently PETA is going to run a billboard with that very phrase around Newark, New Jersey. Reports that dairy consumption might be linked to autism have spurred this ad campaign, according to The Peta Files:
Testimonials suggest that some people with this devastating disease may be able to find relief by simply removing milk from […]
We began the week with Monday in Manhattan and ended it with dinner and a walk across the Hudson River. Inbetween:
Simon Baron-Cohen on “Disorder,” “Cure,” and Autism
Says Baron-Cohen: “The word ‘disorder’ is too negative. I use the word “condition” – autism can be disabling, but not all of its features involve disability. Some of […]
Last week a student asked me if Charlie liked to travel and I had to pause to think about how to answer. Charlie definitely likes to be out and about and looking at things and being in different places (and going out to eat). But—as revealed when Charlie and I went to California in March […]
My office in Jersey City is in an old house, on the left-hand side of a one-way street going down a steep hill. Several of the buildings and some of the other houses belong to my college, but many (including a very large apartment building across the street with aging cement steps) do not. Parking […]
No, not that kind of shot. I mean “shot” in the sense of taking a photo—a snapshot—of a moment, of something you wanted to remember.
3 autism shots from Tuesday, September 16th, in reverse chronological order.
First shot. Pulling out of the parking lot of Target after the purchase of overly mundane items with a Target card […]
Muggy and hot on Sunday so—-after a morning of typing and working and Charlie getting up, piling his laptop and a blanket and a couple of old toys and his Leapster on the couch, with a layer of breakfast crumbs underneath, and dozing off so soundly that my vacuuming some of the crumbs didn’t wake […]
And so, on the final night of summer vacation 2008, what did Charlie say but…..
“No school.”
Yes, having made it clear since school ended back in August that he’d rather be in school, the night before the big First Day, Charlie got opening day jitters.
I waved his lunchbox, packed with paper-wrapped chicken (courtesy of PoPo), rice, […]
Police officers in Freehold, New Jersey, rescued 6-year-old Jahmir Mayfield from biking into traffic. Jahmar has autism and ADHD and had just learned to ride a bike; today’s Asbury Park Press noted that he has a tendency to wander for home and wears a “global positioning tracking device around his wrist.” I have to keep […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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