I have been meaning to write a post about why I haven't been writing many posts lately, but go figure, for all the reasons I haven't written about yet, I haven't finished it. So, I'm going to take the excellent suggestion offered by Wendy of Renewing Ruined Cities, who said I should consider re-posting some [...]
Posts under ‘speech delay’
Guest Post: Solid Footing
Today's guest post comes from Kat, a long-time blogging friend who has her own great blog at Spectrum Beach. Kat is mom to two sons: Movie Boy, who is autistic and currently in middle school and his younger brother Ben Ten. Today Kat looks back on an Easter day with Movie Boy and reminds me [...]
If Your Child Doesn’t Just Eat…
Image credit: Photo by Proggie on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I started my day off on Tuesday by reading Lisa Belkin's reflections on what she's learned in the eighteen years of parenting since her son's birth. I thought, "Wow, that was lovely and touching and resonated with me in so many ways, I can't [...]
Confessions of a Bad Mother
Image credit: Photo by Jill Greenseth on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I have a secret. I have been grieving over my children since, at times, before they were even born. Now that's not the way it's supposed to be, is it? I'm a mama, and mamas are supposed to be joy and love and [...]
This Is Not my Life
Image credit: Photo by mtraker on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Just before my son Austen was born, Mark and I bought a video camera, so that we could document each special moment of his new life. Of course, the milestones, like Austen, were quirky: giving his earliest smiles to a beloved bottle of hand [...]
Early Signs of Autism
In addition to the musings in this post, a brief list of resources on early signs of autism can be found in my post:Early Detection of Autism My friend Mama over at The Elmo Wallpaper wrote a post a while back about the feeling that she is holding her breath waiting for the MMR shot [...]
Thanks to Autistic Adults
Yesterday, I took the kids out to the park to play. As my son was running across the pavement to one of the play structures, he tripped and fell, banging his knee hard on the cement. He got up limping, his face scrunched, as it always is when he is really hurt, into a silent [...]
Vaccines Did Not Cause my Son’s Autism
Almost inevitably, when I mention to someone unfamiliar with autism that my son is autistic, they begin talking about vaccines. Sometimes they proudly tell me how they have not had their own children vaccinated. Sometimes they go off on a screed against scientists, drug companies, government agencies or the establishment in general. If they do [...]
Perseverating
I loved it when my kids were really little and easily distracted. They'd be crawling, with dogged determination, toward something they were not supposed to have: a book they were intent on shredding, a cell phone they were going to use to call Mongolia, a checkbook they wanted to eat or a bottle of red [...]
Aphra Behn Interviews Me: Part 1
Aphra Behn has very kindly indulged my wish to be interviewed (again). I already participated in an interview with Jen of Stay-At-Home Motherdom, but it was such fun, I couldn't resist doing it again. As with that interview, I am going to turn this one into five full days of blog posts. Why kill the [...]
