One of the most common questions I get from parents who read this blog is how to deal with their children’s picky eating or limited palate and I always say that I wish I had good answers for that. Well, lo and behold, I found […]
It’s Thanksgiving here in the US, so for the holiday, I’m giving you a quick list of ten of my favorite stimmy songs. Now, most of my life revolves around music – I’m a dancer, my mind can’t be allowed to run around unsupervised – […]
I speak in movie quotes, tv references, and lines out of books and plays. Honestly, it’s one of my biggest obstacles to clear communication because the lines I reference can be kind of obscure, but when I find people who get it, I know we’ll […]
As we get into the holiday season, I want to talk about autistic eating habits. Many of us, especially as children, get written off as “picky eaters” (George Carlin’s “Fussy Eater” routine comes to mind), but there are reasons for the way we eat and […]
When I was in school, we were taught the five senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. Hopefully, the curriculum has been updated because there are actually eight senses. The other three are interoception, proprioception, and the vestibular sense. While the traditional five senses tell […]
One of the questions I’m asked most often by parents of autistic teenagers and young adults is how to get their kids to maintain proper hygiene. It’s not that autistic people are dirtier than others, but teens and young adults may refuse some aspects of […]
I’ve wanted to write this post for a while and I’ve put it off because I really wanted to do this topic justice. So I’m doing it now and hopefully I’m doing it well. Growing up autistic, especially not knowing it, was really hard. Navigating […]
As you know if you’ve been keeping up with my work stress lately, in all the upheaval of COVID-19 I have been moved from my usual no-contact-with-people information synthesis duties and instead put on phones. PHONES. Luckily, I’m not answering them – a decade in […]
Today is Autistic and Neurodivergent Coming Out Day. So I’m going to give you my story. I am autistic. I have always been autistic. I did not become autistic when I got my diagnosis at 35, nor did I spend my adult life to that […]
With all the talk of quarantine and self-isolation and all that surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, I realized that a lot of people may not be experienced in feeding themselves for an extended period without breaking the bank. So today I’m going to talk about some […]
