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Thinking In Pictures Saturday Night

02.05.2010 Home

HBO premieres Temple Grandin tomorrow night. It’s the story of an inventor, advocate, and author who made an awful lot of people rethink autism. Her book, Thinking In Pictures, is the first book many parents read when they learn their children have the developmental disorder.
Here’s a fine piece about the production by The Daily Beast [...]

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House Money, Four Little Words & The Night Everything Changed

02.01.2010 Family

Yesterday, as I planned my week ahead, I initially chose to write about strategic planning this morning. I owe you parts two through five of a simple way to make strategic planning doable. I was stressed about the week ahead – a monstrous to-do list as our practice and levels of responsibility continue to grow.
Then, [...]

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One Step Forward …

12.18.2009 Family

You write check after check for tens and tens of thousands and thousands. You invest in special schools, doctors, diets, and therapies. Hours become days. Days become years. You give everything. You give stuff you didn’t know was in there because you have no choice. You didn’t ask for this, but you were given this [...]

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Lab Rats

12.11.2009 Meatloaf

In the midst of a seven-hour study on our family by the Thompson Center.
Trapped like rats for the good of Autism research. Wrapping up a break and trying out Wordpress app for phone.
How do you face a bad day? Do you try and be optimistic? Do you just tell yourself it’ll be over [...]

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Books: A Very Good Place to Start

12.07.2009 Books

Imagine landing on an alien planet (or in a foreign country), where every gesture and each subtle change in body language communicates things you can never hope to understand. Everyone around you seems to have hidden knowledge of ‘how to be.’ You don’t catch jokes, you misunderstand sarcasm, and you’re likely to suffer from social [...]

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We Have Winners! Will’s 10 Rules …

11.16.2009 Wallet Pictures

Last week, I asked you to help my five-year-old son, Will, and me come up with 10 Simple Rules for Being a Big Boy.
It was difficult sifting through the fine, fine suggestions posted both here and on facebook and through twitter.
But, Will was up to the task of selecting the simplest, bestest, biggest 10 that [...]

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What are the 10 Big Boy Bees?

11.13.2009

We could sure use your help today. The boy and I are nearly finished with a project that started last Friday.
His physical therapist – Miss Jennifer – started reinforcing three simple “Be” rules:
1. Be safe.
2. Be kind.
3. Be responsible.
The boy, being an overachiever like his mother, didn’t think these three went far enough. He wanted [...]

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