No day is “normal” when you live with autism, either yourself, or with a friend or family member. These articles describe common events that we’ve experienced in our lives.
We hope that they bring you the same laughter, tears, and understanding that they brought us when we started going through it.
This comes out of a response I posted on Facebook, and could be called, the challenges of wearing a mask when you’re on the spectrum. The original post provided legitimate reasons why someone may not be able to wear a mask in public and included those who were victims of assault where their face was…
Masking is when a person on the autism spectrum hides traits in order to blend in or “be normal.” In 2017, a group of British psychologists came together to study camouflaging and come up with a concrete definition to help aid in autism diagnosis in people who were not diagnosed because they were not displaying…
I’ve about had to stop going online as I see people commenting that they can’t handle their kids being out of school for a few weeks, or how difficult it is because they can’t go to a party, vacation, etc. I’m sure almost any parent with a child on the spectrum could tell you stories…but…
The life of a family with someone with autism is not your typical family life. While many things that we do are the same or similar, there are many things that are not. A common phrase in our house is “I never expected to have to say…in my life.” We say this A LOT. Things…
Last week we experienced wind waves. We never had anything like wind waves when we lived in Florida. The closest we had were the winds from a hurricane, but wind waves were nothing like these. A wind wave is when wind builds up and gusts really hard and blows for a period of time and…