Once a site for my own confessions about being a mom of an autistic son. Now a site where we can both share our writing.
Another Autism Awareness month is upon us. And for some reason, I feel duty-bound to gather together the scraps of life lessons I’m stumbled across during the past year. Autism is for Life. Each time I am required to submit a form or show up to an office and display my son for the purposes…
Last night, as I staggered back to bed after cleaning my son up from a middle-of-the-night GI tract-related mess (four sheet changes in less than 24 hours – new record!), I checked social media. I’ve slipped a little lately, just scraping off the top of the feed during “desperate” moments (which may or may not…
I’ve taken a break from posting on Facebook lately. It’s only been 12 days, and I did not put my hand to my forehead and share a vague and ominous status update about why I need to step away, so maybe no one has noticed. I did so after experiencing a particularly sharp emotional meltdown…
So if I told you that we went to an outdoor pool, hit some water slides and a lazy river, and followed it up with a dinner at Ruby Tuesdays and a family movie, you’d probably categorize that as a pretty good day, right? In reality, the day went more like this: We waited as…
You might not like me very much after this post, but that’s something I’ll have to live with. After all, the main point of this post is just that–the truth is not very popular. I can only speak for my husband and myself here when I say that we lie every single day. We lie…
This is why you will rarely see a special needs parent step up to manage a school auction. And yes, I actually sat down this morning, after opening up my inbox to discover my second piece of bad news for the day (more legal details to come) and shared all of these details with a…