All posts tagged "autism"
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Brick Life
/ 2 years agoThe Light at the End of the Tunnel
I’m beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. This past week we got the welcome news that...
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Brick Life
/ 2 years agoWe’ve Got This
He eagerly stands by the door as I assure him his bus has come, and my lanky seventeen-year-old with severe autism...
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Brick Life
/ 2 years agoGuardianship
In just a few short months my eldest son, who is severely autistic, will turn eighteen. I’m having trouble wrapping my...
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Brick Life
/ 2 years agoThis Too Shall Pass
When Covid first began nine long months ago, I remember thinking about what impact this disease would have on the autism...
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Brick Life
/ 2 years agoThe Other Side
He draped his entire body over mine, my severely autistic teenaged boy. We were getting dressed and ready for in-person school...
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Brick Life
/ 2 years agoThe Weight of Worry
It was just another day, nothing special. I was six months in to being my then almost two-year-old’s primary ABA therapist...
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Brick Life
/ 3 years agoKeep an Open Mind
I suppose this is an anniversary of sorts- sixteen years ago this fall my eldest son was diagnosed with autism at...
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Brick Life
/ 3 years agoMake Friends with Parents with Autistic Children
Sixteen years ago this fall my family and I entered the world of autism through our son’s diagnosis at seventeen months...
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Brick Life
/ 3 years agoLeisure Skills
Although it’s been seventeen years since my family began their autism journey, I remember the sense of both relief and panic...
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Brick Life
/ 3 years agoFeda and Muhammed Almaliti
Recently I was horrified to see on my Facebook feed a story about a mom, who was an extraordinary autism advocate,...