We Go With Him

This is what it too often feels when you're an Autismland parent: One moment you're on the top of the world, the next you're down... Read more →

The school nurse left a voice mail while I was teaching Elementary Latin: Charlie was........very tired. "Tired": Not "applied ice," not "bumped," not "forehead," not... Read more →

The distance between where we live in suburban central New Jersey and Manhattan is not great and, on a Sunday morning (like this Sunday morning),... Read more →

"You're going to feel a big let done once this is all over," more than a few people said to us and especially to Jim... Read more →

It was past midnight when I got back home as the rain poured down. Jim went off to drive a fellow autism parent to a... Read more →

"Charlie had a very good day." That is a direct quote from his teacher about his day, which also included throwing his cereal and crying... Read more →

I have been meaning to buy soy milk since Monday. Charlie is on the gluten-free casein-free diet and drinks either soy or rice milk. He... Read more →

It was a day of a lot of conversations. With Jim as I drove to work: Charlie was not saying much, smiled as he got... Read more →

In mid-shower, Charlie started to cry so the window seemed to shake in its frame. Crying became screaming as he sat wrapped in a towel... Read more →

Less than five more days until the autism and advocacy conference on this Friday, October 27th, and so Charlie and I made our way to... Read more →

On walking into Ant Hockey, Charlie walked over to a smaller child and smiled. Ant Hockey turned into Impromptu Soccer (whoever was supposed to bring... Read more →

Charlie's school day has ended at 1pm everyday except for Monday this past week, for parent-teacher conferences (not that he had one----his teacher instead comes... Read more →

Yesterday I mentioned that repeated watching of a certain purple dinosaur had resulted not in my autistic child becoming......autistic, but in forever imprinting the need... Read more →

Having spent the earlier part of this week worrying that watching That Purple Dinosaur could cause a child to become autistic (instead of the result... Read more →

"If you've met one child with autism, you've met one child with autism." "Every child with autism is different." "That's why it's a spectrum." I... Read more →

Today's lack of eventfulness was in direct proportion to yesterday's bike accident and our subsequent worry that Charlie had broken his jaw. At 8.20am this... Read more →

(If you were not able to reach this website by typing in autismland.com, please read this.) We attained a few milestones today, albeit unintentionally. "He's... Read more →

Ant Hockey at 10.30am (Charlie held his stick in one hand, did his best to follow a red ball in a jumble of feet and... Read more →

"He likes the driveway," Jim said to me yesterday after I mentioned how Charlie had spent a good hour running up and down it in... Read more →

"And here's a new song----'Ode to Joy.'" Charlie's piano teacher put the new sheets into the binder with Charlie's piano music and I laughed: "A... Read more →