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About conventions, panels, and bad panelist behaviour: a rant
I have just returned from a weekend at Confluence, in Pittsburgh. It's a small convention, but I really like it, and I always have a good time when I'm there. This year was a little sad, because it was the first year at which there was no Ann Cecil, but the memorial service was a strong reminder of her presence, and what it's meant to so many ( Read more... ) -
All Knowledge is found on LJ, I hope
This is a little bit embarrassing, but given that All Knowledge is found on-line--albeit not, apparently, with my google-fu--I'm asking for help ( Read more... ) -
Martin H. Greenberg
Word is slowly filtering out. Martin H. Greenberg, of Tekno books, died in his sleep, at home, yesterday morning. I met Marty a number of times, because he came to the DAW dinners at various worldcons over the past two decades. DAW published a lot of his anthologies, and he was always invited. He was a tall man, and he was a gentleman; he was ( Read more... ) -
Some of my thoughts on writing about parenting
reneekytokorpi's comment in a previous thread made me think. In particular:
This is so helpful, and I'm very grateful that you're sharing. While I'm not familiar with Asperger's or Autism, my family struggles with my brother's Kleinfelter's and your insights are helping me explain things in new ways. They're not related disorders, but the coping skills and ways ( Read more... ) -
My oldest son is an adult as of June 3rd
My oldest son, who is the partial subject of so many of the posts about Aspergers and school, is now eighteen years old. By the standards of Canada, he is a legal adult. (I refer to this age as "the age at which we can legally kick you out of the house", which he finds amusing. Mostly.)
This is, in part, an open letter to my son.
( A letter to my son on his eighteenth birthday ) -
Grade One and Field Trips
Towards the end of the grade one year, I was allowed to accompany the class on a field trip as a volunteer. I say allowed because in this case, it's the correct word. My son's teacher knew two things about my son: He was extremely 'challenging', and I understood him well. My understanding of my son, however, was a product of my home environment. ( Read more... ) -
Use your words
In the comment thread of the previous post, aanna_t asked:
When my kids were very little, I often had to ask them to "use their words" rather than just glowering. That really clicks with what you explain about your son ( Read more... ) -
MSI in grade one
I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating: theory of mind is a phrase that's used to refer to the development of the knowledge that what you, as an individual, know is not known to everyone else. Up until the time one develops theory of mind, lying is impossible -- a lie relies on the fact that what you know is not the same as what other ( Read more... ) -
Grade One and Harry Potter
I've been absent for far longer than I intended, but while I was absent I made a little list of things that I wanted to write about, a continuation of the small posts about life with my ASD son ( Read more... ) -
Apologies
I appear to have survived another Winter, and the usual snowy spring, and I'm poking my head above ground to apologize for my long absence. Which is not the only reason I'm writing this post; I'm also writing because of something that happened to my oldest son this afternoon ( Read more... )