Reference to autism on 90210 last night—

Something Ethan said on 90210 last night made me think. He was in the woods with a friend and just talking. He said this: Ethan: “People think I’m someone different than I am.” Friend, Liam: “Let me ask you something, why do you smile?” Ethan: “I smile because I don’t want to cause trouble for [...]

I never posted my 08 goals–

So thought I’d post here. I will then look over them over the next week and make up my 09 goals. I don’t even expect to reach some of these, it’s just good to have them all written down to have an awareness of them. 2008 GOALS (the year that will be over TOMORROW! wow) [...]

6 children with autism

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660226195,00.html

The dreams of children

The dreams that we hold about having our children… and the reality given and the new dreams held Dreams of all my life The children we always wished for Years go by like lightning But the expectations soar Wanting perfection Working day and night for our bread Trying to observe each smile, accomplishment, and word [...]

Appts.—

Ryan had some new appts. this week. These are copied from a post I did about them – the first one is yesterday: “Don’t know if I ever mentioned but we had a long-awaited genetics appointment today. At first, I was going to be tested for connexion 26 (an inherited hearing disorder – my dad [...]

What a non-verbal yet very “verbose” autistic person may say–

This is amazing reading, and an amazing blog. I just have to be reminded sometime, of what someone may be thinking, that cannot speak… http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?page_id=258

The fries got Chris off the merry-go-round –

Boy, have I had a time posting here today! I think I have some goofball firewall problems. Anyway – Quite a night we had with Chris tonight. We were going to our usual chiropractor appointment, and for this appt. there was a festival going on across the street. We had gone there before during this [...]

Autism Benefit in Cleveland

http://www.clevelandrocksautism.com/

I remember when it was always like this—

yawn. Chris has switched meds from Geodon to Abilify, and is not sleeping as well. I should have been keeping an official log, but really haven’t. BUT — today is early Sunday morning. LAST Monday night, about 6 days ago, was the last night he had his Geodon med. But for some reason he stayed [...]

Quote from “autism link”

Dear Subscribers: The writer of this particular editorial asked that the name be withheld. While we struggled for a long time with whether or not we should send it out, in the end, we feel that the voices of the parents should be heard.