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Being at the beach, water safety is not just a concern; it’s an every moment necessity. Charlie did a lot more swimming today (more on that later) and I still remember the relief I felt when, at the age of 6, he learned how to swim. This meant that, while still always keeping an eye […]
6-year-old Grayson Sherrell drowned in a backyard swimming pool last Friday, today’s Gaston Gazette reports:
Police say Grayson wandered off from the backyard of his grandparents, Robert and Betty Saunders of the 3600 block of Raven Hill Drive, Gastonia.
They realized he was gone after three or four minutes and began searching for him. When they didn’t […]
Two days at the beach and it’s turning out to be a bit different from our previous vacations.
We’ve gone to the same beach—the same spot on the Jersey Shore—since Charlie was a baby; for the past three years, to the exact same beach house. Jim used to vacation on this beach as a kid and […]
I’ve not been surprised that Charlie’s been calling for home and so uncertain about vacation, although it’s a very familiar vacation, in the same beach house that we’ve rented for a couple of years and at the same time of year, and with the same families renting houses on the same street. He likes his […]
Made it down to the beach house with the usual traffic and Charlie making it clear, he’d rather be somewhere else. I unloaded the car while Jim picked up two rental bikes, and Charlie came in to the beach house (this is the fourth year we’ve rented the same one), eventually.
Charlie used to get really […]
So we come home from an hour swimming at the pool and Charlie says, “Carrots, lunchbox.” And after I give the “yeah, sure,” he opens a cabinet and takes out a Ziploc. As we have no carrots, I suggest grapes, and go to empty the laundry from the dryer.
When I come back to the kitchen, […]
The dry land swimming machine: Now while I hazard that Charlie might like the sort of swinging aspect, swimming without the sensory pleasures of water—nope.
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From the July 30th Hereford Times, a story that brings renewed meaning to the notion of “climbing every mountain”:
Three Herefordshire men with autism have scaled Wales’ highest mountain and raised more than £450.
Peter Woodcock, 21, Sam Peers, 24, and Nicholas Bartlett, 26, climbed Snowdon in aid of Lammas Lodge Care Home in Lugwardine where they […]
To remember Evan Kamida, here’s a small and lovely thing to do: Take a photo of flowers at a swingset and post it to this Flickr pool. Shannon Des Roches Rosa and Jennifer Graf Gronenberg have posted more information.
Here’s Charlie’s swings, with an orange flower for Evan.
The swings are on a […]
A glass half-full or half-empty?
A big awful mess of a mess on the carpet as yet another episode in the comedy of one’s life, or further evidence of the tragedy of life with autism?
Mirth or melancholy? (To put it a little more poetically.)
Mamma Mia! or Dark Knight—-the one (as characterized in the July 27th New […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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