On a more serious note than most of what I post here, this checklist from the “We Are Like Your Child” site (a very useful group blog written for parents of autistic kids by autistic adults, based on their own childhood experiences) is really good. Some of the things on it have really helped me […]
Playing Minecraft on your iPad can be an enjoyable way of killing time during a long train ride. However, if you find yourself startled by the appearance of a green buoy in the river outside your window because you momentarily think it’s a creeper, it might be time to do something else for a while…
Little D, showing me a painting he did: “It’s called ‘A big, big, dark, dark, dark black hole, that’s so scary it can bite your EYES off, because there are MONSTERS in it!’”
So Little A has apparently decided she wants to be a cop when she grows up, rather than (or perhaps in addition to) a mad scientist. Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s “in addition to”, given the plans she outlined to me today. And lest any of my activist friends be put off by this turn […]
“Frontiers in Neuroscience for Young Minds is a scientific journal that includes young people (from 8 to 15) in the review of articles. This has the double benefit of bringing kids into the world of scientific research – many of them for the first time – and offering active scientists a platform for reaching out […]
Me: You know it’s D’s birthday today, right! Little A: Yes! And I’m going to set a TRAP for her! Me: Um… That is really not a usual means of celebrating someone’s birthday, you know. Little A: Well, really it’s more of a prank than a trap… Me: Oh? Little A: Yes! I’ll hook the […]
Scene: on the Don Mills bus. Little A has been getting very hyper and noisy, and I at one point (gently) put my hand over her mouth while telling her she needs to keep it down. She responds by pretending she’s going to bite me. I turn it into a game by threatening to bite […]
If anyone is wondering why I (and a lot of other people) are posting more stuff about autism lately than usual, it’s because April has been variously dubbed Autism Awareness Month and Autism Acceptance Month. Of course, the approaches taken to that vary widely between organizations with different attitudes toward autism (and it is unfortunate […]
A lovely day with Little A – lazy morning with a My Little Pony marathon, and then off to the park to hunt zombies with Nerf guns. No, not a LARP – we had to imagine our own zombies, old-school. At one point she started aiming straight up in the air, and when I asked […]
Three conversations with Little A today: #1: In which Little A has plans for Rob Ford Little A: who’s that? (Pointing at the TV in the restaurant we were in, which was showing a clip of Rob Ford tangling with reporters) Me: That’s the mayor. You know, the one you compared to Jar-Jar Binks a […]
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