Comments on: Three Steps Forward, Only Two Steps Back

By: girldetective

girldetective — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:21:36 +0000

Alas, we’ve had a few more backward steps since preschool ended, making me even more sure I need to get him into social activities, not home with me while I try to keep up with the housework.

I think back to the kids I knew in high school, and the three most obvious ones on the spectrum weren’t necessarily disruptive, just weird, and constant objects of derision. They’re also all dead, having killed themselves. Tragic, and all the more reason early help should be lauded, not downplayed as a product of hyper-worried parents.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:02:06 +0000

I know you struggled to write about this but I’m glad you did. For me, avoiding blogging about certain topics sometimes gives me the ol’ elephant-in-the-livingroom feeling.

But then there’s oversharing.

Blogging is like motherhood: it gets you coming and going.

Bravo to Drake for working hard this year and for all his progress!

Now that I’m in the thick of the “autism world”, I can look back on kids I knew in school who were most likely on the high end of the spectrum but were treated as “bad”, willfully disruptive, pains in the ass. These days they are more likely to get some help and some recognition that this is not a bratty-behavior, lack-of-discipline issue.

By: weirleader

weirleader — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:55:32 +0000

As it happens, I’m 2/3 of the way through The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon. I’ve enjoyed it for the opportunity to “peek” into the mind of someone with autism; from the foreword, it appears that she (Moon) really did her homework to make the characters authentic.

Given your penchant for reading, I thought you might enjoy it.

By: Queenie

Queenie — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:18:30 +0000

Bravo. And now I am going to make sure to hide the scissors.