When behavioral therapy just isn’t enough…

…what do you do?
To say the last couple of weeks have been eventful is an understatement. I just wish it was good events. Don’t get me wrong — there’s been a lot of good things that have happened, a lot of fun, but a lot is overshadowed by the difficulties we’ve faced with ds.
Bottom line, [...]

Autism on TV

Finally, someone has the cajones to take on the vaccines vs. autism story. I don’t know that the show itself is any good, and from what I hear about the previews, it’s probably not a show I’ll watch otherwise, but the premiere episode of Eli Stone apparently takes on the issue of vaccinations causing autism.
The [...]

Mercury and Autism Study Flawed?

This one’s probably the best article I’ve read yet as far as explaining why the latest ’study’ on mercury and autism is misleading. Read for yourself, and you may pick up on a couple of scary factoids.
Parents Say California Autism Study is Flawed (Injuryboard.com)

It finally happened.

For a long time now, mornings on school days have been difficult. No, you can’t play Wii! Turn off the Gameboy, it’s time to get dressed! Pause Spongebob and go brush your teeth. No, you aren’t staying home. Yes, you are going to school. No, you can’t quit school. Yes, you have to wear jeans, [...]

So who’s normal?

If you’ve read this blog for a while, or my old one, you probably know that I have an issue with what ‘normal’ is. There are times where I think that those on the autism spectrum are much ‘normal’ than we are, and how I’d love to have some of my son’s kind of normal [...]

When Katie Wright Speaks…

…people are listening. More and more. Not enough yet, so if you haven’t read her latest, read it here: Age of Autism: Katie Wright on Autism Speaks’ Grants.
I don’t like to say that anyone speaks for me, but I’ve wanted to scream so many of the things she said. The contradictions in the medical field [...]

Please stop yelling!

No, not you. My son. Sorry, I’ve said it so often lately, it just comes out at random times now. I probably yell it in my sleep.
The last week has been a week of increased temper tantrums and meltdowns. All I have to do is say meltdown, and anyone with an autistic child understands, so [...]

And so it continues

My sweet cuddly little boy woke up five minutes before his new Spongebob alarm clock went off (ukelele sounds, no less) and I found him dressing himself. Cool, right? Except he was dressing himself in camoflage shorts and his school’s ’spirit’ shirt, which is supposed to be worn on Friday. I remind him that it’s [...]

Forgotten Supplements=Disaster

This past Friday was a mess. An all out noisy tantruming yelling biting screaming kicking headbutting throwing mess. In fact, the word “mess” doesn’t begin to adequately describe it, but for the purposes of this blog, it’ll have to do. Mess. Period.
It all started normal enough. Typical upsets about typical small things. Then wham-o. Ds [...]

How’s your son doing?

Such a simple phrase, you’d think, right? So easy to ask. Takes two seconds, and it’s just the nice thing to do. Why don’t people actually say it then? And before I go any further — this could be categorized as a rant of something that has annoyed me for quite some time now. I [...]