Category Archives: Autism

It doesn’t need a price tag to be worth something

The Ferret mentioned something on his blog today that oddly mirrored exactly a topic that I myself have been pondering recently. I’m kicking the tires of various old thought patterns in preparation for a very special birthday.  This year is THE year, the BIG year, the year that indulges my just-a-little-stitions.  I’m turning 39, which [...]

Special needs kids are not a life sentence

Everybody knows I have special needs kids, and each one of them has different special needs.  Autism runs in my family like a freight train (and that’s a good thing), plus the youngest has epilepsy.   And maybe because the universe is a weird, strange place, I’m also friends with and related to a number of other [...]

A remarkably unusual emotional landscape

To pretty much anyone I know, if you were to make the above statement to them in relation to me, the automatic answer would be, “Well, DUH!”  Of course I have a remarkably unusual emotional landscape, but every now and again, I’m reminded in a quantifiable way of just how. See, that’s the odd thing [...]

I know you were wondering about Daniel

Well, I went in to see the doctor yesterday to get the EEG results from the test we did last week.  The doctor and I do not see eye-to-eye on a couple of points, but besides that, he’s an okay guy. He was straight-forward and laid it on me – the neurologist wants to see [...]

Loveliness

I had a wonderful evening driving around in traffic for a total of two and a half hours because in the middle of it was a half an hour of fireworks at Kaboom Town in Addison and an hour sitting down at a restaurant with my Lili and Miles.  It’s really all Kira’s fault because [...]