We all want our children to have friends, and sometimes it can be heartbreaking to see your autistic child not have the friendships that your neurotypical children have. Take heart, mama. Just because your child is autistic does not mean that they will not make friends and keep wonderful friendships. They just might look a […]
When we received A-Man’s diagnosis, I was absolutely shocked to learn about the big divide between parents of autistic children, and autistic adults. The more I learned, the more that I saw this divide between parents of disabled children and disabled self-advocates in general. It doesn’t make much sense to me, honestly. It seems so obvious […]
Most people have heard the statistics. 1 in 68 children have autism, and with boys it’s 1 in 42. Autism is often believed to be a boy-specific diagnosis, so it can be challenging to diagnose girls. We’ll cover girls later in this series, but today, we’re talking all about autism in boys. This is a […]
It is officially April which means that Autism Acceptance Month is here which means that it is day one of my Autism A-Z series! I know that many of you may know of it as Autism Awareness Month which is largely organized by Autism Speaks, but I’m intentionally aligning with the ASAN and choosing to […]
One of the skills we’re working on for A-Man this year is increasing his focused table time. The mix of his autism and dyspraxia makes fine motor activity harder for him than typical kids, and he gets frustrated easily. Being a very active boy, he needs a fine motor activity that also uses gross motor […]
It’s a New Year which means that it’s time to reflect on last year to see what worked, what didn’t, and what we want to achieve in the coming year! You may have seen my post about my goals for 2016 where I outlined specific goals that I want to achieve personally, and with freelancing, […]
