Kaylene George is an autistic self-advocate, author, and mother of five, including one autistic child. She realized her own autism as an adult shortly after her son received his initial diagnosis. Suddenly the parts of her that seemed so “weird” to society had an answer. Since then, Kaylene has passionately shared about her experiences with autism from both sides of the great divide between parents and autistic self-advocates on AutisticMama.com.
(Inside: Please do not light it up blue for my son for Autism Awareness day. There are so many ways to help autistic people, but that is not one of them!) We are getting close to Autism Awareness Month, and I should be ecstatic. I am supposed to be sooooo excited that for one month the whole […]
Schools are closing all over the nation, and I’ve been seeing dozens of my friends struggling with what this means for their family. Who will watch the kids if their parents work? How will they teach their child for the nearly 2 months schools are closed in some states (like my state of Washington)? How […]
“MOM. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CAKE.” So I turn from my computer, force a smile, and say “My cake is a chocolate cake with cool whip frosting and cookie crumbles on top. Tell me about your cake, A-Man.” It’s a script, it makes him happy, it’s worth it. But it drives me up a wall […]
“Is he struggling because of his autism or is this normal behavior struggles we should address?” “I’m just trying to find out… Is this an autism thing that we should accept, or is it a behavior?” “I just don’t know if she’s misbehaving or she’s just doing this because she’s Autistic” I hear questions like […]
Do you ever reach your boiling point and totally freak out on your kids? I do. I’m a mom of 6 neurodiverse children, I’m Autistic myself, and I have chronic migraines… Sometimes it’s all just too much and I freak out. I mean… there have been days where I have just completely lost it… Yelling […]
“Whyyyy do I always freak out like that?!” That’s me, by the way, complaining to my husband about how no matter what I did to try to stay calm I was constantly losing it on my kids. Maybe you can relate… Your kid starts with the “mom mom moooooom mom mommy mother mom mom mommmmy […]
