http://www.alongthespectrum.com A view of autism from along the spectrum Mon, 05 May 2008 01:38:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We finally made the trip to Disney World that we'd been planning for about a year.  Things have been rather challenging the past few months and we considered canceling up to a week before we left, but we decided to go ahead.  It was a good call.  I'll ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/05/things-i-learned-at-disney/ If someone had told me that I would write two posts in a row about Bruce Springsteen, on a blog about parenting children on the autism spectrum, I'd have thought they were crazy.  Maybe I'm the crazy one, because here I go with post number 2. Last Thursday, Bruce ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/03/jersey-boys/ I'm not sure what I hate more: 1) big consumer industries telling me that on the 14th of February I need to show how much I love my wife by spending money on overpriced flowers, cards, candy, and jewelry or 2) recognizing that I don't do enough of the more ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/02/for-my-wife/ This week, 9 year old SJ said that he wanted to write a comment about autism on my blog. I told him that if he had something to write, he could write a post. Here it is, unedited: I am a kid with autism and I come up with ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/02/sjs-first-post/ My last post criticized the publishers of Parade magazine for inferring that there is no hope for Autism.  Much of my writing on this blog is intended to be hopeful, but it is unrealistic to expect us to be hopeful all the time. I'm not suggesting that we ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/02/hope-despair-and-everything-in-between/ The cover of today's issue of Parade magazine found in many Sunday U.S. Newspapers has a cover story on Autism. The cover headline asks "Is There Hope for Autism?" Sorry for the language but, it pisses me off that, by even asking the question, the cover implies that the answer might be ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/01/is-there-hope/ A sudden surge in the demands of both parenting and work have kept me from writing lately. Here's a few of the things I've been thinking about during my down time from writing. Rant: Jenny McCarthy. I admit that I haven't paid much attention to Ms. McCarthy but there's ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2008/01/rants-and-ramblings/ As I wrote a few weeks ago, MJ has been participating on a panel of adolescents, teens, and young adults speaking in public about their experiences on the autism spectrum. MJ spoke as part of another panel last week. As I wrote about last time, someone who appeared ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2007/10/wrong-quesiton-number-2/ A few months ago, I wrote about people in Connecticut that were making a difference for individuals on the spectrum. MJ participates in a program called the FOCUS Alternative Learning Center that is run by one of the people I wrote about. FOCUS is a lot of ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2007/10/people-that-understand-you-priceless/ While doing some casual surfing this evening, I found link to an article titled Top 5 Things Every Extrovert Should Know About Introverts. It's on a blog about self improvement written by Brian Kim. The themes in Mr. Kim's post are very similar to those that many of ... http://www.alongthespectrum.com/2007/10/mainstream-neurodiversity/