Adieu Autism Awareness As another Autism Awareness month is over, I’m feeling silent. Acceptance or not, I shall carry on being here. Diagnosis or not, I shall carry on being who I am. Noticed or not, I shall still be. Wasn’t it Descartes who said, “I think as an autistic, the...
Then in 2008, Autism Speaks launched the firstApril, Autism Awareness Monthto further normalize and celebrate the disorder. Places like Niagara Falls, the Empire State Building, the White House, the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...
Later this month I’ll get to see Jonah at the Dutchess County Fair – they’re bringing some of the kids on a special day for people with sensory issues, and I’m taking the day off to meet them there. I wonder what he’ll want to do. Surely the food and the animals will both...
But on the night following Jamison’s two-month “well baby” visit—during which he received six separate vaccines—his health deteriorated rapidly and never rebounded. He developed eczema all over his body. He didn’t sleep for more than twenty minutes at a time. After a few sleepless nig...
the efficacy of ABA as the treatment for autism through the lifespan and what happens when people with autism are not provided effective treatment. Dr. Davies discusses the fact that children with autism in Canada have been thoroughly abandoned by the health care system for their core health nee...
Autism Awareness is being spread on a daily basis. The mustache wearing in the morning has increased (See – Let DC Be DC), to the point where over the past month it’s been almost a daily thing. A few weeks ago, he added a scarf to his anti-anxiety ritual. It was so much, ...
When my son was only 1 month old he had to have emergency surgery for pyloric stenosis. I was a new mom, single and at the time not in therapy or medicated. It was brutal. He had surgery on Thanksgiving Day. To any parent having to watch your child go through something like that ...
…Does Jackson show awareness of dangerous situations? My answers sound wooden and cold. I don’t mean them to be. Dr. Bill is still a nice man. It’s not his fault I have to answer, “No.” My bottom lip juts out slightly, and I stubbornly refuse to say “Never.” My ...
For instance, they are faster at saying that 1 No- vember is Sunday if it has been 'primed' by a preceding question about 1 March (which has the same answer, as its 'matching month') than if preceded by 1 September (which has a different answer). As well as examining the overall ...
For sure, it took several weeks for Martin to hit his stride last summer in Nicaragua. Nevertheless, by the end of July—I just ran through my contemporaneousposts—I was noticing improvement. Today is August 1, and Martin does not seem improved since we arrived here a month ago. ...