December 2009 - Autism Blogger - The Network of Care

Sorry everyone but I have to call this one for Derek today..... We had a "surprise" snow storm today here in the Portland area and it hit right at the time that I pick Derek up from his CI program. I got a call from my wife that it was starting...

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 10:05 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

You know more than doctors

I, and half the town knew my son had Autism 2 years before the doctor wrote it down. Obviously, your childs doctor is the ruler of decision. I could not get help for my son til the doctor wrote it down, but now it causes conflicts with other parties....

Published Tue, Dec 29 2009 9:56 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism News

Feeling cautiously optimistic

The last two weeks have been amazing. I almost hate to put this out there, as I might jinx something. All of a sudden, Luke's behavior has improved. He's more even-keeled, he's less impulsive, he's more focused and engaged and less aggressive...

Published Mon, Dec 28 2009 7:48 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

Caught in the middle

Lately I've been feeling as though I'm standing on a highway in the middle of the northbound and southbound lanes. I'm right in the center of all oncoming traffic. Coming from one direction are the "Cure Autism-Recovery or Bust"...

Published Sat, Dec 26 2009 8:04 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

Newbie

This is a first for me. I have made a comment or two but I'm not your typical blogger! To be honest, this will probably turnout to be one of my venting sessions! I just found out my four year old has autism. Now I have know for sometime he has delays...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 11:06 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Help

Christmas at our house.

Christmas is by far Derek's favorite time of the year.....He knows that after Thanksgiving I will go to the storage unit and get the decorations but we can't put any up until we pick out a tree. This year we went to our usual tree lot and he is...

Published Thu, Dec 24 2009 5:28 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

The four marks of a great autistic software engineer

On slashdot today, there was an article about why programmers are often not paid what they are worth , along with this comment about Larry Wall's Virtues of a Programmer . It struck me this might be instructive for parents of autistics, so here's...

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 3:50 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Ideas

Barbie

I noticed my autistic son playing with barbies the other day. He wasn't pretending they walked or talked. He was more interested in the mechanics of their movement and their clothes. My daughter was playing at the same time. She pretended they walked...

Published Tue, Dec 22 2009 6:32 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Darwin

So here is the thing... I am chattin with a good friend of mine and she came up with this idea. She said "Autism" is just an evolution... "Evolution"I ask... She says "Yes, you know like Darwin." So I proceeded to ask "Like...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 7:43 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Other Stuff

HELP!!!!

Hi I've posted before about starting an autism awareness group for the community here and guess what. the school disrict wants me to represent parents with specail needs for the state assesment they have. so here is the delima. I have two children...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 12:45 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Surveys and Studies

The Voice of Autism

Hi All. I am new to this blog and I am from Australia.My son is 5 and was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism 9 mths ago. He was diagnosed with Epilepsy when he was just 18 mths old. The epilepsy was easier to deal with than the Autism diagnosis. I...

Published Mon, Dec 21 2009 2:09 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Understanding

Blogging is fairly new to me. Actually, it's totally new. I am really excited because my world is now about my boy who is Autistic. He was diagnosed when he was two-he is now three. I am in the middle a divorce which is taking away too much energy...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 7:25 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Ideas

Keep on Giving

We're almost done with Hanukah and now Christmas looms, and Jill and I agree that somehow we just haven't yet hit the target with presents for Alex. "I feel like he wanted something this year and he just can't tell us what it was,"...

Published Sat, Dec 19 2009 3:16 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Autism Reality

Despite the fact that this is from one of the further-out conspiracy theorists in the neurodiversity world, I thought I'd post the link to this interesting 10 minute video on what it feels like to be autistic in a neurotypical society. Also interesting...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 10:51 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

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