autism

Parenting autism

Facebook is great for some things – keeping up with family, friends and colleagues, seeing families and lives of people you otherwise would not, ignoring “friends” instead of de-friending because their political/food/OMGFML posts are too annoying for words, that kind of thing.

What it is not so great for is seeing how much other parents have different lives than you do.

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Smile

I thought of this the other day and felt like I wanted to put it down. The memory came to me after my youngest smiled at me. It was that particular type of smile – not just happy, but happy to see you, happy to be doing whatever he was doing, just happy to be.

And when I saw this smile I felt something only a parent can feel, and every parent would have difficulty describing. It’s just a pure feeling, made entirely of love, affection and, as strange as it might sound, a desire to impress – impress Daddy with his nothing more than his happiness. Read more…

light it up blue

Light it up blue tomorrow (and all of April, if you can), for autism awareness.

I know, there are a million causes screaming for your attention. And there are many very, very serious ones. My own family has been touched by heart disease, diabetes and the big “C”, cancer.

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