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A Halloween Episode
You must have known this was coming. My post-Halloween cooing over the love of my life. Every year is just a great big new point at which we can re-evaluate with awe how far we’ve come. As we are all so interested in measurements of all sorts —...
Published
Sun, Nov 01 2009 6:39 AM
by
Estée Klar
Filed under:
Joy
Change
I’m changing the name of this blog and bidding farewell to The Joy of Autism. I ran that blog since 2005 and when things changed last year, I felt that my blog had to change with me. As I’ve written above, I’ve got good reason “To...
Published
Wed, Nov 04 2009 9:51 AM
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Estée Klar
Filed under:
Acceptance
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To Get To The Other Side
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The Joy Of Autism
November is Novel Writing Month!
It is a pleasant coincidence that November happens to be Novel Writing Month at Nanowrimo and I decided to join (partly to become part of the community again). Nanowrimo requires 50,000 words by November 30th, but it’s the end product I want by...
Published
Wed, Nov 04 2009 2:57 PM
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Estée Klar
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Writing
Writing Notes No. 1
I have a list of writing topics. There they are, line by line, one stacked upon the other awaiting more words in my little red writing book. The book is full enough to make me feel somewhat accomplished. The weight of the paper from its corresponding...
Published
Fri, Nov 06 2009 5:00 AM
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Estée Klar
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Writing
My typewriter
A year-and-a-half ago, I had an obsession with typewriters. I bought them first for Adam, thinking that he would find the one with the right feel and sound as he was learning his keyboard. Adam’s father purchased a wonderful old Remington for me...
Published
Fri, Nov 06 2009 1:56 PM
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Estée Klar
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Writing
Blind, Autistic Woman Rakes Leaves To Pay For Dental Work.
Heather Stone collects leaves earlier this week at a home where she and some volunteers raked leaves to help Stone raise money to have dental work done. Stone has raised $41 so far toward a $12,000 visit. When I read this story I thought of Adam. How...
Published
Fri, Nov 06 2009 4:46 PM
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Estée Klar
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Uncategorized
H1N1 Vaccine Day
Nope. No qualms about it here. When it comes to life or death, or the risk thereof, it’s a no-brainer. Today we line up at our local clinic. Pack the backpack with food, toys, books, lollipops (wasn’t my last post about the dentist…oh...
Published
Sun, Nov 08 2009 6:16 AM
by
Estée Klar
Filed under:
Autism and Vaccines
Diagnosis, Determinism and the DSM V
I was sitting in a waiting room recently when I picked up this from the April 2009 issue of Today’s Parent magazine’s article, Is It A Learning Disability by Marcia Kaye. I turned the pages reading about “conceptual and motor problems...
Published
Mon, Nov 09 2009 6:54 AM
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Estée Klar
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Autism and Learning
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Autism Spectrum and Diagnosis
When The Wall Came Tumbling Down
It’s quite a night for me to watch this twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down. I remember exactly where I was watching a younger CNN minute-by-minute, glued, because the year before I had just been there. I visited East Berlin where the group...
Published
Mon, Nov 09 2009 2:50 PM
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Estée Klar
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Expression
I’m hard pressed to ever state that Adam really can’t express himself. I mean, I find myself saying it some days in terms of verbal communication. But really, he is an expressive guy. If I were to take an accounting of his “expressiveness”...
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Tue, Nov 10 2009 7:26 PM
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Estée Klar
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Autism and Learning
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Development
An Artist’s Life
Hovering like barometric weight, each morning before I wake an effort looms. It was your idea, your invitation upon the podium I stood. You wanted words of hope, I thought - Of the little engine that could. Lauded once and quoted some for better and for...
Published
Wed, Nov 11 2009 10:01 AM
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Estée Klar
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The Fishbone
“We all take for granted the little miracles,” she said. She said it after I pulled out the fishbone from my throat – about an inch long. I did it outside, after they said the meal was on the house, choking next to the kitchen asking for help quietly...
Published
Fri, Nov 13 2009 5:49 AM
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Estée Klar
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My Creative Non Fiction
Writing About Illness
‘Tis the season of H1N1 and I am reminded of how many writers write about illness. I began The Joy of Autism blog in 2005 whilst suffering from pneumonia. I devoured the prose and poetry of Audre Lourde when I was diagnosed with cancer. Here’s...
Published
Fri, Nov 13 2009 9:36 AM
by
Estée Klar
Filed under:
Writing
The Fight of Our Lives
Picking up on Virginia’s Woolf’s quote I picked yesterday in “Writing About Illness” quite intentionally, I consider all some of the historical and contemporary writings about illness and disability. Michael J. Fox talks about...
Published
Sat, Nov 14 2009 7:52 AM
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Estée Klar
Filed under:
Writing
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Acceptance
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To Get To The Other Side
Slipping Through My Fingers All The Time
“Barely awake at the breakfast table, I let precious time go by…” Hovering over the small stainless frying pan I cook his eggs, sunny side up. He always likes them sunny side up. I think it started when I started making them into “Baby...
Published
Sun, Nov 15 2009 7:58 AM
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Estée Klar
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Development
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Single Parenthood
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Joy
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