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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 by Estée Klar

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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 by Estée Klar

Filed under: Autism and Learning, Autism Spectrum and Diagnosis
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
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 by Estée Klar

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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 by Estée Klar

Filed under: 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 by Estée Klar

Filed under: Writing
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 by Estée Klar

Filed under: Writing
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 by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance, To Get To The Other Side, The Joy Of Autism
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

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When The Wall Came Tumbling Down

Diagnosis, Determinism and the DSM V

H1N1 Vaccine Day

Blind, Autistic Woman Rakes Leaves To Pay For Dental Work.

My typewriter

Writing Notes No. 1

November is Novel Writing Month!

Change

A Halloween Episode