Travel has never really been a part of ‘things I enjoy’. The whole idea of being away from home, potentially staying in hotels or not knowing where I am or what’s around… it all scares me. In fact, I’ve always said I would want to see Tibet and Greece - but I always […]

There is a great event going on on July 12th in Carlsbad to benefit a local autistic boy. He’s going to go to an intensive program for two weeks and the proceeds from this event help fund his trip. I can send you the details of the event - but basically, they are […]

Aspergers in Love: Couple Relationships and Family Affairs by Maxine Aston
To make a really ridiculously obvious correction to the TITLE of the freakin’ book before I even begin, the syndrome is correctly spelled Asperger’s Syndrome, with an apostrophe. Not ‘Aspergers’. It just goes downhill from there. I would link to the book […]

…hurts. I think I cut it accidentally while I was doing a crafty thing. But for some reason, I keep forgetting to put a band aid on it.
I asked myself why I beat myself up. Don’t I get enough of that from other people?
When I rock or flap or get stuck like […]

Lately, Ethan has been socializing more with other kids his age. That’s great on one hand… but it comes with a ton of struggles that non-spectrum kids (and moms) wouldn’t have.

In school, when he has meltdowns during unsupervised time, they turn violent. Although he has meltdowns at home, he doesn’t get […]

Ethan had some real difficulty in his first few years of school. His behavior was wacky, he wasn’t listening to anyone, wasn’t doing his homework, wasn’t working in class and was falling behind. There were lots of reasons.
He moved here to live with me and we got him on a 504 […]

I am autistic. I fit the DSM-IV criteria for Asperger’s Syndrome and was diagnosed several years ago.
I have trouble holding a ‘normal’ social life. Being social in the way that other people are social is taxing and draining for me. Being in a ‘typical’ relationship doesnt work for me. […]

I’m making a jewelry box for Emma for xmas. I’ll glue the gemstones onto the knobs, add another coat of pearl rose to the inside of the drawers and very carefully glue the fragile wings onto the fairy on the top and then I’ll carefully lay it into a box with tissue paper to […]

So, as it turns out, the Man Child’s school overestimated how many 3rd graders they would have this year and Ethan only wound up with 12 kids in his class. Sounds great to me! The school didn’t share my opinion though. So they re-shuffled all of the 3rd grade classes to get […]

Person on the other end of the phone : “Hi, Mrs. Carrie?”
(oh fuck… it’s like the SECONRyan DAY OF SCHOOL! What has he done THIS TIME? No speak-e engles!)
Me : “Yeeeeeeeees… ”
Her: “Yes, this is Mrs. WonderfulSpecialEdCoordinator. I got the copy of the 504 plan that you dropped off and I’m looking over […]