And the Lioness has arrived

Sep 2, 2011

My son has been doing an awesome job at high school.  He loves it and he has been doing his school work at school and I am so proud of him!  The other day I had posted about the one bad night when he forgot his geometry assignment.  Well apparently that started a whole thing. […]

Acceptance means Acceptance

Autism Speaks and other groups have advertised April as Autism Awareness month. I think it is great to try to rally people up and try to make sure everyone in the community is aware of autism. Recently Life on The Spectrum went out and poled people to ask them what they know about autism. The […]

Twice Exceptional = Twice Screwed

I really like the name Twice Exceptional.  Probably because it doesn’t have any bad connotations to it yet.  Special or special needs shouldn’t have a bad connotation either but lets face it, those titles unfortunately do. I was recently in a store and the cashier was having trouble and commented “don’t mind me, I’m special!” […]

Who Really Lacks Empathy?

My son refused to go back to school today because he says he no longer trusts the school.  Why would he say that?  Because we convinced him that everything would be okay if he returned yesterday after the nightmare that occurred Friday.  It wasn’t completely okay, he arrived to band to discover they were having […]

Cheer Each Other On & Try to Enjoy the Scenery!

For clarification I found this post in my drafts, it has been here for a while, it is not in response to yesterday although yesterday did prompt me to go finish it.  If you don’t know what I mean by yesterday, I am sorry I don’t plan to cite the heated discussion that occurred yesterday. […]

#youmightbeanautismparentif

I only started using Twitter a couple of months ago because I just never understood the concept or the appeal. Now I love it! I have met so many wonderful people on there! There is also a lot of real time discussion and support. On November 20th Elise who tweets under @RaisingASDkids started a fantastic […]