My son is the type who loves checklists, schedules, scripts, anything that will make his life predictable. But life isn’t predictable. Sooner or later, there will be a problem that he has to solve on his own. Everyone must learn how to adapt. Concrete thinking and rigid, inflexible habits are prominent features of many neurological [...]
I’m 53 and the younger sister of an older brother (by two years) who had undiagnosed Asperger’s while we were growing up (1960s and 1970s). My brother and I grew up with very unaware, self-involved parents. Short story…I spent years in therapy sorting through our family dynamics and learned so much about the kind of [...]
Psychiatrists, psychologists, and medical doctors use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association to diagnose mental disorders and intellectual disabilities. The DSM is an important tool not only to diagnose, but having a DSM diagnosis is often required for insurance coverage, and to access special education and/or state-sponsored programs. Asperger’s [...]
PBS News Hour covered a story about their own tradecraft. News has an agenda in Worrall Elementary School, where reporters with Asperger’s syndrome are routinely pulled from their classrooms to learn the basics of journalism. Their teachers say producing a newscast is one of the best ways for their students to learn how to speak clearly, [...]
Once upon a time, someone googled “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers.” The autism community noticed. #AutismPositivity2012 Today, April 30, 2012, bloggers around the world are sharing their positive messages about autism in response to that google search. The next time someone does a search on “I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers,” he or she [...]
Last week we told the story of 17-year-old Lewis Crowe. Because he has autism the Canadian Government has banned Lewis from living in Canada and in order to visit the country he needs special permission from the immigration department. The Canadian Government regularly uses the excuse that allowing entry to families of children with special needs will cause [...]
Can’t see the video? Watch it on You Tube Buy the Album on Amazon.com Brady Rymer started his career as a bassist in a New Jersey Jam Band called “From Good Homes“. In the 90′s the band was starting to take off. The band performed up and down the East Coast. They landed opening slots [...]
Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah. Joshua’s unique questions and Sarah’s loving, unguarded answers reveal a beautiful relationship that reminds us of the best—and the most challenging—parts of being a parent. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants. Each conversation [...]
Have you ever been told by a stranger how to discipline your child with autism, what to feed him and of course how to cure him? You try to explain to him or her how autism works but no explanation is good enough because their cousin or favorites celebrity’s child was “cured from autism” with some miraculous [...]
