Tag: autism spectrum disorder

Autism Awareness Month Podcast Interview

I had the pleasure of being a guest on What’s Your Story with Hannah and Stephani this week. Because it’s Autism Awareness Month, we talked about parenting a child with autism. We also talked about writing, meeting Yeshua, coffee, and my near-birth in a helicopter!

Monday Morning Coffee and Chat 8/5/19 – How Difficult Was It To Send Your Autistic Kid to Space Camp?

Monday Morning Coffee and Chat! Today I’m answering the question,”How difficult was it to send your autistic son to Space Camp?”

Autism and Navigating Social Needs and Desires

Parents got all the kids settled downstairs, and the dad started the movie. After making sure Scott and Jeb had their boxes of food and drink secure in a way that they wouldn’t spill, I went back upstairs with some of the other moms to get myself some food and a drink when Scott came stomping upstairs carrying his little plastic box.

Parenting Autism: The Surprising Moments of Overwhelming Emotion

So, the first time I watched the first two episodes of of the show Parenthood, the overwhelming emotion that had me sobbing into my couch pillow really surprised me.

Really surprised me.

Autism, Third Wheels, and a Hammerhead Tadpole Trike

As we researched autism and all of the senses the condition affects, we discovered that to Scott — to his brain’s situational awareness in the world where all of his senses come in unfiltered and out of sync — his perception is that his life did depend on him clinging to me. Much like vertigo can attack someone with a fear of heights, as soon as those wheels wobbled even fractionally on his bike, his brain immediately told him that his life was in peril. No amount of encouragement could redirect him long enough to focus on his other senses and control the bike.

To our little third wheel, he felt like he was drowning while fleeing from a shark.

Autism: Boys of Summer

Yesterday, we packed up the boys up to go sign up for baseball. On the way there, Gregg told me that he felt like we should let Scott sign up for a regular team. His reasoning was that he doesn’t want to apply limits that may not be necessary to apply. He said he would rather give him an opportunity to play a regular team and if he fails, move him to the special needs team.