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Because our brains don’t process the world in the same way as most everyone else, we don’t understand other peoples’ points of view, and they don’t understand ours. This leads to frustration on both sides. No one wants to be…
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“We all did really well, because we are all friends.”
The title of this blog comes from a statement made by my neurotypical daughter after her dance recital dress rehearsal several weeks ago. She and her class of 11 6-7-year-olds had just finished rehearsing and she wanted to know how I thought…
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Back to the beginning: Being fearful of new things
In my first blog, titled, “Where to Begin,” there is a list that I said I would give insights into later. This is a bit later than I had intended, but here it goes. Number 1 on that list was:…
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Why a Special Interest
While vacuuming, I was thinking about some presentation notes I read from the Minnesota Conference on Autism. The notes were talking about how people with Asperger’s Syndrome and autism often have a special interest. The notes made the observation that…
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Not trying to be clueless…
The other day one of my children was confounding me – which is not difficult to do. Though I am considered academically gifted, every day life is surprisingly challenging (it surprises me, even!). I brought the issue up with my husband,…