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I was interviewed in the May issue of Working Mother magazine in an article by Jennifer Owens entitled The Quiet Struggle: From heartbreak to hope: moms of kids with special needs. The mothers in the article have special needs kids of varying diagnoses (some with autism) and ages (3 years old; adults). One mother […]
“Hollie puts me into situations where I end up learning something about myself and about her.”
Says Trisha Kayden about her 7-year-old autistic daughter in a profile in the September 2nd Midland Daily News (Michigan). Kayden also notes that “‘If I couldn’t find a reason to laugh, I’d probably be crying a lot……You get rewards […]
I used to teach writing and composition to first-year college students. I would often ask students to choose a contraversial topic—-abortion, gay marriage—and analyze how a writer, or two different writers, constructed their argument for or against the issue in question. I no longer teach these sorts of composition courses, but if I did I […]
I just met with my son Charlie’s teacher (he is in a self-contained classroom with a 1:1 teacher:student ratio located in a local public school). For the past five years? six years? we have been working on teaching Charlie to write. When he was five years old, he was able to trace and to write […]
Last Saturday, February 24th, I wrote my last post on Autismland, the blog I have been writing on since June of 2005 about my son Charlie. I had begun the blog with plans of writing the book about Charlie that I have been wanting to write for many years. I decided to stop writing Autismland […]
The one reason that I am writing this, right here, right now, is because of Charlie. Before Charlie—before his diagnosis of autism, before we started to wonder what is going on, before I felt what I thought might be his tiny fist or foot moving inside me—before all that, I did not know what autism […]
Strong, and indeed acrimonious, words were leveled at the “movement” of “the neurodiverse,” in the words of David Kirby and of autism mother Kim Stagliano this week, with responses from many a blogger. Among the points of contention is that the notion of the neurodiversity is all well and fine if you are an adult […]
Feeling heat on the floor rather than coming out of a radiator in the wall.
Hearing an entire book rather than reading words on a page.
These are small changes in how I’ve been taking in sensory data—-the bathroom in my parents’ house is heated through the floor; I have been listening to an audiobook while […]
I blog here at Autism Vox to spread the word about autism.
My son Charlie was diagnosed with autism on July 22, 1999 and ever since then—-really, from the first moment my husband Jim Fisher and I knew “something was not right,” something was different, about our boy (Charlie did not talk, Charlie screamed when […]
Recently, there has been some discussion about how parents write about and “represent” their autistic children. Are we violating their right to privacy in sharing stories of their trials and tribulations, and triumphs; of their lives?
The continued references to autism as a “devastating disorder,” a “tragedy,” and as “hopelessness”—as in a recent press release from […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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