The Joy of Autism

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

More Than Walls

We are moving, Adam and I. Thirteen days and counting. Leaving the home I built with Adam’s father (literally — I’ve uncovered stacks of my working notes while building the house I am moving out of) and I ache. My back aches from moving...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 5:35 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: To Get To The Other Side

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

It’s So Nice To Have This Time Together

It is that time of year again when Adam and I spend a bit of time in Florida. Now a single parent, I get to spend a long stretch of time alone with him. There was a time that we spent this period as a family. I am no longer a part of that family [......

Published Thu, Dec 29 2011 6:48 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance

Part of the Network of Give and Take

It has occured to me that Adam gives back. He’s not the only one in need of assistance. He and I, and all of us, are part of a network of give and take. For many reasons this Hannukah and Christmas (or Fesitivus for the rest of us), Adam and I will...

Published Sun, Dec 18 2011 9:12 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inclusion, Contributions to Society

the fukushima 50

I woke to Peter Armstrong from CBC News reporting on the radiation surge at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. What a disaster of proportions only imagined by me, as I watch images of towns completely destroyed by water. On the television...

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 7:19 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inspiration

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

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

The Party

Adam had his 11th birthday party this past weekend. He has grown so much the past year, like a bamboo shoot – thin and taller. I always throw a party for Adam…it is our normal, perhaps your “quirk-fest.” No matter, it’s our...

Published Mon, Apr 22 2013 7:27 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Adam, Acceptance

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