Stories By Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoThe Future
If you are just beginning your autism journey with your son or daughter, I imagine you are feeling at least a...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoNot Home for the Holidays
The holiday season is upon us, and as usual I try to take time (usually a few seconds at this time...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoGo with Your Gut
It all started so slowly, so insidiously, I barely noticed. In late October of 2017, there was the repetitive movement of...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoGrateful
Every year I try and write a “Thanksgiving post,” both in honor of a holiday I love and in an attempt...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoKeeping an Open Mind
I remember it like yesterday. An eighteen-month-old Justin and I were sitting having lunch in a restaurant in the mall, and...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoFull Circle
He stands alone in a corner of the dining room, having triumphantly liberated a toy from the garage I haven’t seen...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoCelebrate the Small Stuff
He hesitates at the threshold of the tub, looking concerned that the water is spraying down rather than collected for his...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoThe Little Things
Fourteen years ago this month I held out a trembling hand as my then seventeen-month-old son’s pediatrician shoved some incomplete articles...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoThe Best I Can
I see you, across the fairly empty waiting room at CHOP. You are with your adult daughter in a wheelchair, and...
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Brick Life
/ 6 years agoAutism Columnist: Reflecting on a Year of ‘Cycles’
As many of you know, we have been having a really difficult time with our severely autistic fifteen-year-old for about a...