NBC has a show with an Aspie kid in it. The show’s called Parenthood. We can get it here in Canada on CityTV, which is probably why I’ve never seen it because I don’t watch City. I came across the show’s website while reading someone’s blog. Interesting, I thought. So I clicked to watch a [...]
November 17, 2010
I’m sitting propped up in bed with a nasty cold and and a throat clogged with laryngitis. It’ll be a long, silent day waiting for my book proof to arrive. So the topic today is how to get an IEP for an Asperger kid. The exact procedure is different depending where you are. But here [...]
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 [...]
November 1, 2010
I love reading all those social skills books that tell you How To Do Eye Contact. Stand x-many inches away. Point your eyeballs at their eyeballs. Remember to blink. Avoid feeling embarrassed and ew. Yeah, like that’s what people really do. Listen up, people. Eye contact is not about eyes at all. At least, not [...]
October 20, 2010
Here are two plain-n-simple ideas for explaining relationships to an Asperger kid. And by “relationships” I mean not just friend-friend relationships, but also boss-worker relationships, teacher-student relationships, mom-child relationships, etc. 1. A relationship isn’t a thing. You can’t have a relationship the way you have a thing. If you put your thing on a shelf, [...]
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 [...]
October 11, 2010
What Does Everybody Else Know that I Don’t? is a book my Michele Novotni. Dr. Novotni works with ADHD adults. She wrote the book to describe the holes in social knowledge that ADHD adults typically have. The title raises an interesting question for Asperger adults too. What does everybody else know? How can you learn [...]
March 22, 2010
Three Reasons: 1. Most children with behavioral issues get sent to psychiatrists and psychologists. Psychiatrists and psychologists are only allowed to diagnose conditions listed in the DSM. Ergo, if it ain’t there, they can’t diagnose it. As a result, most children with SPD never get properly identified. They get drugs instead of occupational therapy and [...]
December 7, 2009
Dr. Lucy Jane Miller and the folks over at the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation have been plugging away for years to get recognition for sensory processing disorder (SPD). They’ve now got a submission into the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the next Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM). The DSM is the United States’ official book [...]
November 19, 2010
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