My son is 13.   He likes to recite facts incessantly.   His voice is changing.  He likes it.   He's growing and is an inch taller than I. His mental age and his emotional age is around 10.  I'm not worried.  He'll catch up. Baseball has become his newest obsession fascination. He needs to be…

My goal for my son?  For him to be an independent adult.  I'm not expecting him to be a doctor.  I'm not expecting him to be a teacher.  And, once again, this is the face of autism.  Don't you just love him?

Brother has learned a lot about friendship in the past couple of years.  He mentions that one guy he knows is not a good friend because he doesn't interact with him much.  This guy tends to ignore Brother especially when other boys are around.  This happens a lot to Brother.  But, until just recently, he…

My son was older when he received the Sacrament of Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.  He was ten.  Usually, you are around 7 or 8 (second grade).   I worried about whether he got it.  I need not have worried.  He does.  He is a literal person so it was very easy to understand (and…

A fellow ballet mom asked me a question regarding what nurses should know about children with autism when treating them.  She asked me through Facebook (I read it via email).  I was going to speak to her about it tomorrow but then realized it would make a good blog post. The very first time I…

When Brother was about 10, he started to question why he was continuing with his therapy.  His two younger sisters needed speech therapy for articulation issues but were finished within a year to eighteen months.  I explained to him that he had autism and that the therapies helped him in many areas.  He didn't really…

Upon returning home from ballet, Brother asked Sister, how was ballet? It just made my day.  He never asks about someone's day or event.  Ever.

~1~ I'm watching something on TV about autism.  It's showing a segment about the police and interactions with autistic people.  A man is a trainer for police departments on how to deal with people with autism.  People can sometimes mistake autistic tendencies with other things such as being under the influence.  It has happened that…

A few years ago, I read that Ryan Barrett had participated in his homeschool group's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.  I had the same reaction about my son wanting to participate in a production as Mary Ellen.   I decided that I needed to give him a chance.  He wanted to do it.  I…