Since this is a new blog, I thought it would be a great time to reintroduce my “sonshine”, Sawyer! Sawyer is 12 years old and…
Sawyer has developed a new “tic”, or stim. He kind of “chews” or smacks his lips a little on the left side now, and that’s new. I asked him why he does that, and replied “Um, I don’t know. It’s just what I do.”
This was originally supposed to be published on April 2, but for some reason my post scheduler didn’t push the post out. :\ April is…
When my girls started school, I didn’t have a lot of fears about it. Both Emily and Caitlyn were social butterflies who had shown me…
I had a conversation last night with a woman I met on Reddit in a group for special needs parents. Her child was recently diagnosed…
“Am I autistic?” I knew there would be a day when Sawyer would realize he was different than other kids. I have thought many times…
A meltdown is different from a tantrum, even though to those who don’t have a special needs child it looks very similar.