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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

Let Us Pray

The Catholic Review of the Archdiocese of Baltimore has run an interesting story on how the church is beginning to deal with parishioner families living with autism . (I tried to show the story to Alex, but he just kept running to the TV to watch “Elmo...

Published Thu, Dec 17 2009 9:19 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

I gift myself

Ok actually, my husband gifted ourselves, we have our business, and the business makes plenty but we only pay ourselves so much. So the "president" decided to reward the "staff." I being the secretary and head of advertising (not treasury...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 9:19 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Experience

been too long

It has been entirely too long since I have been here on this site. I miss everyone so very much. I hope to have more time to get back involved here now that my recovery from surgery is almost done. The twins are doing so well at school. Michael is saying...

Published Mon, Dec 14 2009 7:20 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Other Stuff

10 years old and not toilet trained

I have a 10 year old son with a DX of Autism, and a 15q12 chromosome duplication. At one time about 5 years ago he was slightly toilet trained at the ABA therapy school he attended, however, he got influenza while there and all that he had learned was...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2009 11:47 AM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

Filed under: Autism Help

love you

My 21 one month old son was just given a provisional autism diagnosis. He makes sounds but is unable to speak any real words. I am ashamed to say I am feeling like nobody else understands what our life is like. Our son can not say mamma, dadda or love...

Published Fri, Dec 11 2009 7:41 PM by Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group

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