| nancy@nancymucklow.com | 96 posts
I have a theory. My theory is that many (but not all) Asperger kids have an eating disorder. Not a psychological eating disorder, like teenage girls who wants to waste away. But a physiological eating disorder. Their bodies don’t know how to eat. I know, it’s not in any of the textbooks, and nobody really [...]
January 17, 2012
Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory is an Aspie. Anyone want to argue with me on that? And what a wonderful, uber-Aspie he is! Sure , his whole cadre of friends are nerds, geeks, and social misfits — including the customers at the comic store and the speech-impedimented bully at the cafeteria. But Sheldon [...]
January 7, 2012
Heart-rate variability therapy for anxiety is a bit like the tail wagging the dog. But it’s surprisingly effective. Here’s how it works. Heart-rate variability (HRV) means how much your heart beat speeds up and slows down. You may feel that it beats faster only when you run or when you’re scared, but actually, a much [...]
December 22, 2011
A first-year student at the local university contacted my husband early this fall, referred by his neurofeedback therapist in Toronto. He’d just gotten started on neurofeedback and desperately wanted to continue, but now he was too far away to go to appointments. He wanted to know if my husband could do the therapy for him. [...]
November 20, 2011
If you’re reading this post, then you probably have a teen Aspie. You’re looking ahead to college and thinking: How is this kid going to survive? He can’t cook! For many, many Aspies, food is one of the Big Issues. Too many sensory issues are involved. Not surprisingly, most don’t learn how to prepare their [...]
September 8, 2011
Do parents have the right to blog about their kids? I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest that it’s a question many bloggers in the Aspergersphere don’t want to ask. Sure, some parents blog under false names. So then maybe that’s okay. But a lot of us blog under our real names, or [...]
September 5, 2011
School is just starting up here in Canada. Labour Day Monday marks the end of the summer. It’s the day to find the lunchbag, backpack, lock (and combination!), do one last set of neurofeedback training, and then rehearse how the day is going to go. Rehearsing is funny. I mean, if you’ve never done it. [...]
August 14, 2011
The UK riots seem to be over (yay). Now we’re left with figuring out what in the bloody hell happened. Why did thousands of young people suddenly decide to try to burn their world down? The politicians look for ideological causes. Because they’re funny that way. The lefties claim the cause is social problems, poverty, [...]
July 25, 2011
Stimming is a thing Asperger people do. What does stimming do? It pokes the senses a little. That helps keep them awake. (Think of crossing and uncrossing your legs when you’re sitting in a boring lecture.) It feels good. It seems to tickle them inside. Even verbal stimming (playing with words and sounds). It soothes. [...]
July 18, 2011
I could have written this post. But someone has said it better than me. This video is Bill Cosby addressing graduation at Carnegie Mellon. But he could have been talking to Asperger young people. “Don’t talk yourself into not being you.”
May 3, 2012
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