In case you missed it, it’s been a busy few days over on the Diary Facebook page. It started with a celebration of the marriage of these two delightful pensioners, as newly allowed by the Supreme Court decision. Together for FIFTY-FIVE years, they were the first couple to be married in Dallas County, TX. How … Continue reading
{image is a photo of a young man curled into a ball, covering his head with his hands} – On the outside it might look like a sudden explosion, but it’s actually the final few minutes of a process that may have taken hours or even days to develop. Bec at Snagglebox, What Does a … Continue reading
Dear Suzanne, It seems we’re here again. I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be having a different version of the same old tired conversation. But I don’t know what else to do. I don’t know how else to counter the harm that you continue to do in the name of some … Continue reading
** A personal note to my dad – just in case you didn’t get my message, please don’t read what follows. – Jessie To everyone else, cw: sexual assault {Image is a screenshot of Joan Tarshis on CNN. The banner along the bottom of the screen reads, “Exclusive: … Continue reading
For B, the original walking yard sale. We’ll get through these years together and laugh about it over a drink on the other side. Promise. {image is a photo of Katie and me three and a half years ago in Captiva. She is ten. The photo was taken by Brooke and prominently features her thumb.} … Continue reading
{image is a photo of a woman who is not me shouting from a rooftop, presumably because she just realized that she doesn’t have neurotypicalism either} “So just as one can be described as Jewish or Catholic or gay without taking away from any of the other possible descriptors, they can also be described as autistic … Continue reading
There are so many things that inform my parenting. None, of course, more than my study of my children and my deep and abiding love for them along with the conviction that if my Mama gut is telling me something, I should likely listen. But when you parent a child who, in some fundamental way, experiences … Continue reading
{image is a hand painted mosaic rainbow lightbulb and the beautiful, multicolored light which it casts. Click on the image to order one from MoodLights on Etsy, with whom I have no affiliation whatsoever} As many of you know, after years of trying desperately to change the way in which Autism Speaks approaches autism advocacy, I … Continue reading
September, 2010 Brooke is seven years old. We spent the day at an “Autism Walk.” Did she hear the speaker that called autism a ‘disease’? Did she hear the young adult standing in front of us repeating over and over – and over – again, “Were at the Autism Walk. That’s for me. We’re at … Continue reading
I wanted to find an image of an actual Welcome mat, but then I found this and it’s got wellies AND a rainbow, and well, doesn’t it just make you feel welcome? Moving on … I’ve been struggling with something. Wrestling with right and wrong and the rights of the wronged and egos and bruised … Continue reading
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