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Autism Mom Diaries: Lost, Again...
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A single mom's journey through life with her Autistic son. Often a comedy of errors full of joys and tears. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. He was gone. Just like that. A blink and gone. I looked around. I checked up and down several aisles. How could a 4 foot 9 inch, 12 year old in a red coat disappear that quick? I could call his phone! Shit It's in my purse. The ONE time it isn't in his pocket is the one time he disappears. Fuck. Now what? I was met with six panicked faces. I faltered. Why wouldn't I say YES!
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Autism Mom Diaries: Why Do I Run?
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A single mom's journey through life with her Autistic son. Often a comedy of errors full of joys and tears. Friday, July 24, 2015. Why Do I Run? It also did not escape my notice that I was a third of her size. I have also become acutely aware of all the glares I get from heavier moms of special needs kiddos when I pick up or drop off my son to camp. How does it give us permission to sit on the couch and eat poorly day in and day out? I mean, jeez oh Pete! My health cannot be an added stressor to my day n...
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Autism Mom Diaries: Our Great Summer Wrap-Up
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A single mom's journey through life with her Autistic son. Often a comedy of errors full of joys and tears. Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Our Great Summer Wrap-Up. It's been a couple of months since I've posted. We have had one heck of a busy summer. The past few months have been full of changes for us. Some are for the better, some were simply devastating, and some just were. Turns out it was wildly successful! Sparky also went on his longest trip away from me! When he came home he barreled into me like a f...
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Autism Mom Diaries: January 2015
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A single mom's journey through life with her Autistic son. Often a comedy of errors full of joys and tears. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Acute Partial: The Note, the School, the Heartbreak, the New Fears. This is one of those times when I have so much to say but I have no idea where exactly to begin. That's probably why it has taken me so long to sit down and start writing this post to update you all on why my page has been so quiet. They didn't want to address it until after the meeting so the IEP meeting...
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Autism Mom Diaries: August 2014
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A single mom's journey through life with her Autistic son. Often a comedy of errors full of joys and tears. Tuesday, August 19, 2014. Our Great Summer Wrap-Up. It's been a couple of months since I've posted. We have had one heck of a busy summer. The past few months have been full of changes for us. Some are for the better, some were simply devastating, and some just were. Turns out it was wildly successful! Sparky also went on his longest trip away from me! When he came home he barreled into me like a f...
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Find My Eyes: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. We are, at long last, and confidently, hopeful. My wife was the first to say something. She came to me and said "have you ever noticed the baby girl rolling her eyes? There's something I don't like about it.". I started noticing it, too. All of that information was from WebMD. I found pretty much the same information on Hopkins Medicine, Mayo Clinic, NIH, and even Wikipedia. Where I didn't find any of that information was from my daughter's neurologist. So, we took Jade to he...
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Find My Eyes: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Till Human Voices Wake Us. I overheard a conversation the other day between Jade and her babysitter. I only caught the tail end, but it was lovely. Dee: "Well, Jade, if Dee could be in two places at once, that would be a wonderful fantasy world". Jade: "And there would be an octopus! One thing that we have been working on with Jack is better pragmatic speech skills. Pragmatic speech (put simply) is how to have a conversation, turn-taking, when to STOP talking, etc. Jack h...Fanta...
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Find My Eyes: Fly
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. And that, my friends, is a good thing. The mountain house that we both wanted to be scattered from. Third grade was amazing for all of us. We had an amazing teacher. We had an amazing team. We made amazing friends. We caught up academically. We caught up socially. But I had very little to do with any of that success. Sure I did homework. Sure I drove to therapies. Sure I filled out permission slips. I am so proud of how hard you have worked this year. You we're talking with your mo...
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Find My Eyes: A Tale of Two Turtles
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Thursday, December 4, 2014. A Tale of Two Turtles. So this is not autism related at all but it's a funny, heartbreaking story nonetheless submitted entirely for your entertainment. We spent the Thanksgiving week in Lake Tahoe, CA. It was great to get away and the kids both did great and had a great time. They will be fine, Jade", I reassured my doubting daughter. The next morning as I was brushing teeth, my wife set something down that she had found in the dryer. I thought nothing of them. I started to f...
