Connecting the Autism Community
When I realized the other day that BabyCakes was 18 months old, and that 18 months was a year and a half I was taken aback. Somehow it doesn’t seem like she’s been with us that long, while simultaneously feeling like we’ve had her all along.Her current…
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In our nearly two-decades-old, small, local meet-up group of moms with sons and daughters who have disAbilities, (plus a dad or two, and a few friends who work on behalf of our community,) we call her the queen. Not just…
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Ready? Cue the eyeballs to roll. I’m sure some of my Facebook friends knew this blog post was coming. So, what does The Buddha have to do with the Icepocalypse, as we called Storm Octavia here in Nashville? And Pandora….
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Funny how time renders perspective. Even a different way of looking at things once held as definitive truth and "the way." The "right" way. I now get it. I totally get why that older mom was so miffed and would…
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We bonded during the last hour of the day. A panelist at the close of the first-ever conference for midlife bloggers asked the audience of 100 women if any of us found certain types of stories that resonated with their…
Read moreI dug around in my archives in my personal blog and found this. I thought it would be a good
Read moreHi there My 6 yo son has had a diagnosis of PDD-NOS for approx 18 months (although this took close
Read moreSuspicious, distraught woman seen That is what the headline will say on the community newsletter. The article will read as
Read moreMore than 3 months ago I took my kids into the Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s James L. Dennis Developmental Center for
Read moreI have read many stories written by parents, describing their journey through Autism with their child, but none from quite
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