“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” Prov. 3:3 I wanted to share with you some things that have been around my neck and written on my heart lately: MY NECKLACES For many years now, I’ve loved unique necklaces. But, [...]
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Two years ago, we got slapped with our son’s autism diagnosis. Feeling a bit shell-shocked, we walked out of the autism-specific clinic carrying a heavy diagnosis and a very light folder that included some pamphlets on what to do now. Of the pamphlets, there was one on creating a living will, one on genetics counseling, and one on [...]
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Today is World Autism Awareness Day and April is autism awareness month. I’m excited about the elevated attention given to this cause at this time, and here are a few links I’d like to share with you, including our own documentary that my husband produced: Jenny McCarthy’s third book was just released called Healing and [...]
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I’m so proud of my husband. He’s a tv producer on a local cable channel, and he debuts a whole 30-minute show about autism next month. It focuses on our personal journey so far with our Josiah, and on getting out information to those early in their journey about what options are out there to [...]
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LOOKING FOR HELP A little over a year ago we found an oasis in the middle of what felt like a big, scary directionless desert. We had just come to understand that our little two year old had autism, and we had started some speech and occupational therapy for a few hours a week, but we knew [...]
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It’s amazing the power of a word. One year ago today (August 25) the word “autism” was breathed for the first time in our home. It hung in the air like a dense fog that took my breath away. I will never forget the scene… we had just put Josiah to bed and we returned [...]
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Understanding. Solidarity. Empathy. Hope. Awareness. This past year, I have Googled my heart out to get a grasp on this world of autism, and it’s other parents that we don’t even know that have really been there for us through their videos and sites. I think so many shell-shocked moms and dads are just desperate [...]
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We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. [...]
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It’s really late tonight, and I’m so exhausted that I can’t sleep. Does that ever happen to you? Your head hits the pillow and while your body so badly wants to go into dreamland, your mind can’t stop racing with thoughts? I find that it’s better for me to just get up and do something [...]
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“Autism is reversible.” I remember in the early days of Josiah’s diagnosis coming across this statement on a Google internet search. It was such a different declaration than what so many books and websites said. I kept seeing things like, “Autism is a pervasive, life-long disorder with no known cure and no known cause.” What [...]
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