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Articles written by people affected by autism (mom, dad, grandparent, sibling) or someone who is on the spectrum sharing personal accounts, happy moments, fears, etc.

Poetry Corner: Finding Courage

I wait With bated breath. I try to prepare myself For the unknown in this moment. Fear has settled itself in my heart. These are small moments for most. Normal events in childhood. There shouldn’t be fear. Trembling. Uncertainty. But there is for me. These moments terrify me. I sit, watching the speech therapist Spoon […]

Poetry Corner: Special Kid

There was this very special kid, who had to find his way. He worked so hard, he did this every day. He smiled and he laughed, and sometimes he would talk about the things that he wanted, and what he asked for with his words he got. You see he was learning on an unbalanced scale where […]

This Is My House: Why I Placed My Son With Autism in a Group Home

All parents schedule their kid’s departure from their home to be around the age of 18 years. I often joke that my twins have an 18-year contract in my house and then they get the boot. So it is hard to put into words how that deadline got moved up by 12 years for my […]

Autistic Boy

Autistic boy Can’t calm down. He is upset And moving all around. You can see his emotions All over his face His words are inside But travel no place. He gets tears on his cheeks Oh how he cries, As he tries to work through His daily life. I pray for him Each and every […]

A Note to the Stranger Who Understood My Son

To the mysterious stranger at the arcade: I saw you watching my son today. You didn’t see me watching you but I was. I saw you look at him as he covered his ears and stomped his foot and growled. I wondered if you knew he wasn’t being bad, that he was just overwhelmed. It […]

Dealing With Job Pressure As an Aspie Can Be Hard

A lot has been said about people with Asperger’s syndrome and school, bullying, and so on. Many people have touched on these kinds of subjects over the years and made an effort to provide helpful information. However, there is a part of our lives that I find lacks attention and that is when we Aspies […]

Didn’t Know the Half Of It

The tender story of a man’s struggle to place his youngest brother with autism into respite care the night of their mother’s passing. Thursday 01.10.2015 “It’s Mam,” John sounded panicky on his mobile. “Something’s not right.” He rang her every night but tonight she had been talking faint and slurred then gone quiet. He could […]

Accepting Help Can Be Hard When You Have Autism, But So Important

I was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) and eventually autism/Asperger’s during my third year of life, and I didn’t begin to speak until nearly age three. While I don’t remember much of my toddlerhood, the memories of school and social life as a child are very much vivid. Except for kindergarten, I attended special […]

The Amazing Ways the Power of Music Changed My Life

Now I had a new title, I was no longer just a girl with autism, I was The Shires’ “number one fan” and I could do anything. From a very young age I could tell I was different. Everyone else always seemed to know what to say or the correct way to act, whereas I […]

Outrunning Asperger’s: A Father’s Story of Love and Support

On July 29, 1993, my wife and I welcomed our third child. He weighed in at eight pounds, eight ounces, and sported a mound of black hair atop his head. We named him Brendan Richard. As months passed, we noticed certain developmental and speech delays. Two months after Brendan’s second birthday, he was diagnosed with […]

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