I received an interesting text message the other day from my wife asking if she could write a guest-blog. She said she wanted to address those who apologize to after hearing our son Matt is autistic. First off, I am not a word smith like my husband. I can’t sit down at a computer and…
This is just too powerful not to share. As a father of a child with autism, every single day I look at my son and wonder about what’s happening inside that little head of his. I wonder what he’s thinking, what he sees, and how he’s processing everything happening around him. Yet most every day,…
Surprisingly, two of my earlier BLOGs about autism and my 3-year old son Matt have garnered a lot of interest and certainly a lot of traffic. In one of them I listed ways in which the wife and I have tried to help our son, which includes a better diet, and have since received a…
(Writer’s note: Sometimes I think I write this stuff for myself rather than any so-called ‘audience’ and that’s fine. As I mentioned awhile ago, talking to myself helps insure a solid understanding of what I’m trying to say. After all, if I don’t get it – I can’t imagine that you would.) I mentioned recently…
Yesterday was Autism Awareness Day. Now I won’t go into a lot of details about the statistics or what it means to be autistic – as there are plenty of resources available online – but I’ll say that for the longest time I just thought that autism was a form of mental-retardation that couldn’t be…