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When Normal Is the New Weird | Special Needs + Typical Parenting (Belonging Neither Here Nor There)

Feb 4, 2015 | Categories: Advocacy & Awareness, Inclusion, No, You're Not The Only One..., Parent Support, siblings, and Uncategorized. Tags: Asian, Autism Awareness, Inclusion, Parenting, Sacred Parenting, and Siblings.

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity Many of us hold dual citizenship: Card-carrying creds from the world of Special Needs parenting, and membership in the “normal” world of typically developing children (“Sibs.”) We occupy both...

Why I Don’t Mind Being a Dis-Abled Family in a Hyper-Abled World: Part 2

Nov 26, 2013 | Categories: Advocacy & Awareness, Don't Diss Disability (DissAbility), and Uncategorized. Tags: Advocacy, Asian, Autism Awareness, and Inclusion.

Today’s post: A continuation from Part One, “Why I Don’t Mind Being a Dis-Abled Family in a Hyper-Abled World.” The Snack Shack A few weeks after we moved in, Justin set up a Snack Shack in the garage to “sell” free Otter Pops. It was more a ploy to help him meet and make friends with the neighborhood kids (who all seemed to know each...

Autism Awareness: OK. You’re Aware. Now What?

Apr 1, 2013 | Categories: How to help, Parent Support, Recent Diagnosis, and Uncategorized. Tags: Autism Awareness and Autism Awareness Day.

Yesterday, April 2, 2013, was the UN Autism Awareness Day (April is Autism Awareness month.) I’m really glad we get a month, because autism is tricky, especially when no two people with autism are the same. I’m now eleven years into it with our son, and I’m still learning. So I completely respect that autism can be mystifying and intimidating for folks who aren’t...