Category: Autism

Excerpts from “You Don’t Want to Go for a Ride” Over the last couple of years, I have answered questions from other parents who are looking for more information about autism. I decided to pull out sections from each chapter of our book that contain references and some thoughts about different times of parenting an…

Arbor Day and Autism Awareness/Acceptance April is almost over and it’s been a busy month. Starting off with April Fool’s day, followed up with Easter and Earth Day and other anniversaries,  there are a lot of celebrations as spring arrives. The pictures of trees for this post are for Arbor Day and Earth Day. There…

At the end of March I wrote about the different viewpoints within the autism community. There is a saying, “If you’ve met one person with autism, then you have met one person with autism” and it describes how different each autistic person is. Conflict and anger can often result due these differences in all of…

It is almost April, which is also Autism Awareness month. April 2nd is World Wide Autism Awareness day. Over the last few years, I have been learning about autism by reading books, following autistic bloggers, parents of autistic children and participating in a discussion group focused on autism. While performing this research, I have become…

I wanted to share a link for an interview with the website Special Needs Book Review. They have reviewed our book and also posted an interview we did for them. Raising an Autistic Son to Adulthood The other link is for a website created by Dolly Parton to get books to children before they are…

An Excerpt from “You Don’t Want to Go For a Ride” A quick late night post, a passage from our book which explains the name.   He also talked a lot more than before, but he had problems with the correct usage of pronouns, especially “I” and “you.” He constantly referred to himself as “you”–as…

Imperfect Parenting In less than a week, we are releasing a book about life with our autistic son. The project started as a recommendation from a friend. The original intent was to share our challenges as a family and give an inside look at what life can be like with autism. While we’ve worked on…

A Positive Story about Autism I would like to share a positive story about my son. He is 27 and he has always been interested in visual activities, such as drawing, building with Legos, photography and making movies. He likes to make up stories and when he was younger he created an entire world based…

Author Reading for “You Don’t Want to Go For a Ride”: Our Family’s Journey with Autism I am pleased to post a video of John and I reading from our book “You Don’t Want to Go For a Ride”, I thought people might enjoy an author reading. Also, a reminder about our Goodreads Giveaway, you…

Goodreads Giveaway for “You Don’t Want to Go For a Ride” We are giving away two signed copies of the proof version of our book “You Don’t Want to Go For a Ride”: Our Family’s Journey with Autism. The signup for the giveaway will start on 8/22 and end on 9/4. The book will be…