My Autism Insights

This is the first year that Gus has to take state exams.  I’m curious to see how he does on them.

At present, it doesn’t much matter if he passes or fails these exams because as an IEP student, they don’t really count in his final grade or whether he continues to the next grade.  (They’re not [...]

About two weeks ago when the Arthur episode, “When Carl met George,” aired, Gus was home for spring break.  We watched most of the episode together, and we had a brief conversation about how he and Carl had some similarities.  Gus has known for some time that his brain works a little differently from most others, [...]

Earlier today, before Gus was in rare funny form.  A taste of our conversation in the car:

“You are about the silliest boy I know.”

“What about Bobby?”

“Bobby’s a cat, not a boy.”

“He’s a boy cat.”

“…Okay, then you must be the silliest human boy I know.”

“There are other people who are sillier than me.”

“Yeah, but I haven’t met [...]

I am, as of yet, uncaffeinated, but will attempt to write anyway.  Today is World Autism Day (I just almost typed Awe-tism; what could that mean?), to be followed by Autism Awareness Month.  I am thankful:

that autism is receiving more and more balanced attention every day.  While no one can deny the challenges inherent in [...]

It’s been so nice out this week, I just had to get out and enjoy the sunshine!  So I missed Thursday, but this week I am thankful…

…for the first day of Spring!  Happy Equinox, Happy Spring!

…that when I’ve taken the kids out this week, Gus did really well, not only staying close by (instead of wandering [...]

Welcome back to Thursday, only one day away from Friday!  This week I am thankful…

…that the snow finally stopped!  I think one more snow day after 3 straight would have sent everyone over the edge.  Snow days are great, but there is such a thing as excess.

…that Gus is doing really well learning multiplication!  Not only [...]

This week’s thankfulness…

I am thankful that Gus was found and none the worse for wear last week when he decided to squeeze himself into a locker at school.  I had a long discussion with his teacher and counselor, and he faced the unpleasant consequence of losing all video games for the entire weekend.  He’s been on [...]

I’ve been very remiss about my updates since the holidays.  Life has been keeping me quite busy, but I thought it time to reinstate my favorite post topic: Thursday Thankfulness.  Here’s my list for this week:

I am thankful that the paint color Gus picked out for his room came out so great!  I was nervous that [...]

I thought I would be keeping Gus busy today, but it seems he’s turned the tables on me.  Even though he has to be home, he feels all right, so he’s had lots of energy.  We started off our day by getting MM off to school – she was a little annoyed that her brother got [...]