Month: March 2015
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Happy Birthday Matthew!
Today is my son’s 22nd birthday. Matthew is a handsome, blonde, blue-eyed, tall young man. Matthew also has autism. He is non-verbal, needs 1:1 support, has had behavioural issues throughout his life, and will always require support. He does not understand the dangers that you and I do – stopping and looking before crossing the…
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ASD and Me
As a person with High-Functional Autism (or HFA), I would like to share with you how I got my social skills improved in such an exponential rate that I have never expected to happen, but I am humble and glad that it did. There is this popular animated TV cartoon show from Hasbro Studios by…
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The Sun in Our Sons
~Illuminating, Celebrating and Cultivating the Good in Autism~ “That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” 1. We Just Need to Take the Time to Look The Honourable Mike Lake’s Statement on World Autism Awareness Day, April 2, 2014: “Mr. Speaker, today is World Autism Awareness…
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The Sun in Our Sons
~Illuminating, Celebrating and Cultivating the Good in Autism~ “That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” 1. We Just Need to Take the Time to Look The Honourable Mike Lake’s Statement on World Autism Awareness Day, April 2, 2014: “Mr. Speaker, today is World Autism Awareness…
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Don’t judge a book by its cover
No story is more “Alex” to me than the one I often repeat about the boys in the beer store. When Alex was about 6 years of age he and I and his sister, who was 4 at the time, stopped by the beer store on our way home. For those outside of Ontario, the…
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Don’t judge a book by its cover
From the Blog “Alex and Autism” No story is more “Alex” to me than the one I often repeat about the boys in the beer store. When Alex was about 6 years of age he and I and his sister, who was 4 at the time, stopped by the beer store on our way home.…
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What I hope for the next 10 years
Anyone who knows me knows I am an optimist. I like to take the long view. I almost always see the glass half full. When it comes to my three teenagers with ASD, that doesn’t change. So if I think about what I hope for in the next 10 years I think of them first.…
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What I hope for the next 10 years
Anyone who knows me knows I am an optimist. I like to take the long view. I almost always see the glass half full. When it comes to my three teenagers with ASD, that doesn’t change. So if I think about what I hope for in the next 10 years I think of them first.…
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One mother’s story – giving hope to each other
The year – 1997. Imagine, the excitement of finally having your first born child in your arms after 9 very frustrating and stressful years of infertility issues (high dose medications, IVF, miscarriages). I knew his name years before he was born – Ryan meaning ‘little prince’. Ryan was a beautiful 8lb.6 oz. little boy with…
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Lucky
Our family joined Autism Ontario in 1993, twenty years after it began and shortly after our daughter Grace was diagnosed with autism. Our membership number was 109, hinting at the humble beginnings of this organization at the half-way point in its history. But that was also a different time: when Grace was diagnosed, we were…