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I mean, what do you expect? We spend two whole weeks in a house with a lovely big open room one block from the ocean (and are able to piggyback on someone’s internet server so Charlie is able to discover the pleasures and perils of YouTube) and (after a very anxious start) fall into a […]
Two weeks ago, we went back to the beach house. At first Charlie was not happy to be there. But the third day was the charm and we had some interesting meetings. Charlie discovered YouTube and its cache of Barney videos (especially the really old ones, which he seems to prefer). He got very upset […]
Am not exactly thinking of the newly released Metallica song (I’m more likely to be found listening to this artist) with the title “The Day That Never Comes.” As the mother of an autistic son, I’ve caught myself sighing a phrase like “the day that never comes” from time to time. Charlie is 11 now, […]
Last year Charlie had his first surfing lesson. He swam out into the ocean with a 9-foot-surfboard attached to his ankle and was able, after coaxing, to get into a kneeling position, hands grasping the sides of the board. What I remember most from that first lesson was not the long, lazy rides he had […]
Yet another report of an autistic individual—Angel Brooke McKinnley, a 22 year old woman in Provo—-who is missing. There’s been numerous stories about autistic children and adults missing this summer, and Project Lifesaver has been mentioned a couple of times. A friend’s son has one of the Project Lifesaver devices and I was surprised […]
Besides watching Charlie pick up his red boogie board and walk out into the waves, lie down on it and turn around to catch a wave—last year he hadn’t quite gotten the knack of this—-and the general benefits of being at the beach (and I say this as a person who, until knowing Jim, had […]
We’re on the beach and I look up and see a small airplane pulling a banner that advertises a certain movie whose words have been under discussion here.
Kind of sums up much of the past two weeks.
A “Feral Child” Found in Florida? In 2005, a girl named Danielle was found amid the most literal squalor […]
It being the “dog days of August”; us being on vacation at the beach house; the 2008 Olympics taking place; Charlie being a boy who loves loves loves to swim—-I am indulging in making a bit of an Olympic (”citius altius fortius“).
More than a few people have said to me that life raising an autistic […]
I read about Jenny, a “special-needs elephant” (per the New York Times; she has, among much else, “crippling depression”). In the midst of discussions about the “r-word” in the Tropic Thunder movie, the words we use to refer to “kids who are different” or “academically challenged” or “special ed/special needs” resonate. When did “special” come […]
Change of scenery, change of routine—-that’s all part of vacation and, as recounted here, why Charlie’s first three days at the beach house were full of more sorrow than smiles. We’re back in the swim (big-time—-Jim’s been calling Charlie “the torpedo” for the way he propels himself through the water, in the moving waves and […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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