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Please don't tell me how I should feel oppressed, thanks
I've been writing posts that are, roughly, about family - or rather, about mine. Today, I am writing about me. And about my interactions with race ( Read more... ) -
Grade Two, and finally, the end to bullying
When I first started posting about my ASD child, it was indirectly in response to discussions on the internet about bullying in its many forms. I had intended to speak about how one Principal at our school had landed firmly in its midst to put a stop to bullying and its culture ( Read more... ) -
Decisions about children and their happiness
If you’ve been reading these posts for the last week, you know that my intention was to write two posts. The first, about help, I did write. The second, I still haven’t written. This is very much in keeping with the way I write anything. I have a general idea. I put the words on the screen. And then other words arise out of interaction, and, well ( Read more... ) -
Answering a question about household disagreements
spiffikins asked:
Looking back at our own efforts, we had lots of battles :) I've love to hear how you applied these rules to situations where your son didn't want to do something, like have his bath or get dressed/put his shoes on for school or participate in the day to day activities of helping out (setting the table, doing dishes, doing homework) - it ( Read more... ) -
ASD and the importance of words & choice
I’ve said, in my previous post, that ASD children are afraid to make mistakes; they’re afraid to be wrong. They speak of the things that interest them because, in some ways, they feel secure in their knowledge - secure enough to talk. If they become comfortable enough about speaking - even if it is about their current obsession - they then develop ( Read more... ) -
Teaching an ASD child to converse
I replied, in my previous comment thread, to a comment, and then realized that I had more - I know this will come as a surprise to you all - to say.
One of the hallmarks of an ASD child and his general speech is that ASD children can talk non-stop for hours about the topics which interest them. Or obsess them. From an outsider's perspective, it's ( Read more... ) -
On Communication
I said in my previous post that I had two things I wanted to talk about: help, and love as endurance ( Read more... ) -
On help
A discussion elsewhere on-line, to which I will not link because I think it will generate a lot of heat for a very little light, has got me thinking about two things I’ve been mulling over for months. The first is ‘help’, the nature of help, and what people - or at least people who are Michelle - want when we say we want help. (The question evolves ( Read more... ) -
On writers, pseudonyms and entertainment
I realize that it’s been a little while since I’ve posted. Or longer than a little; I lost two months of working time and have been playing frenzied catch-up ever since because I am foolish and never build “oh crap” time into my work schedule ( Read more... ) -
Steve Jobs
At Apple.com today is an obituary. It is absolutely done in the Apple style; it’s simple, it’s graphically arresting -- and it is also startling, almost unbelievable ( Read more... )