Finally, a book about Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS, and HFA for grandparents! Yep, I had to write it myself. Here’s what the book blurb says: Most children fit almost instinctively into Grandma’s house – obeying, trying to please and finding their groove. Children with ASD have a harder time adjusting and even a brief visit can [...]
June 6, 2011
I wish there was such a thing as a social skills curriculum for Asperger kids. Because jeez, they need it. But there isn’t. There are a few good attempts out there, yet each one covers one or two aspects of the social skill deficit. With any one of them, you won’t get the whole enchilada. [...]
March 6, 2011
A lot of Aspies become actors. Like, have you noticed?… High school drama classes are full of Aspies. You’d think that acting, which is all about communicating emotions, would be hard for an Aspie. But here’s the secret: Aspies are acting all the time. They learn early that they have to act like everyone else. [...]
March 1, 2011
People end up at this blogsite because of things they type into Google. Like “Asperger’s and repetition.” We see something odd about our Aspie kid and wonder WTF. Google, tell me what’s going on here! A friend of mine recently had her 8-year-old ID’d as mild Asperger’s. One of the issues mentioned in the psych [...]
January 10, 2011
Words make up less than 10% of human-to-human communication. (Even less for human-to-dog communication.) The other 90% is body language, voice, and facial expressions. Talk about the medium is the message! Basically, how someone says something and what they’re doing while they say it accounts for MORE than the words they’re saying. That’s because a [...]
December 10, 2010
I used to think my kid was always getting bullied. Till the day I got a phone call from the mom of the kid who was bullying him. Asking if I could talk to my kid and get him to stop bullying her kid, because he didn’t even want to go to school anymore. Talk [...]
November 15, 2010
Mr. Creosote: Waiters are perverse. The Meaning of Life: The best way to damn someone is to agree with them. Who can stand looking at their own idiocy? The Meaning of Life: Nuns should all have to do the can-can. The Holy Grail: Most obstacles in life are stupid. Try again. Fail again. Just this [...]
November 10, 2010
There appear to be a lot of unwritten rules. I did a search on Amazon and found dozens of books: The Unwritten Rules: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level The Unwritten Rules of Friendship The Unwritten Rules of Baseball The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search And [...]
October 15, 2010
Some people think you either have common sense or you don’t. But they’re wrong. That’s just because they can’t explain it. When you can’t explain something, you think it’s because it’s some freaky, invisible thing. But listen up, people. Common sense is very rational. That’s why it’s called common sense and not common freaky invisible [...]
June 16, 2009
It’s been a very busy month. Heck, I had a book to put to press! But it’s done now, it’s out, and it’s making its way around the world. The second edition of The Sensory Team Handbook is similar to the first edition. But the pictures have some professional touches, the fonts have been simplified [...]
September 6, 2012
0