photo courtesy of www.BloggingLily.blogspot.com "Gentle Christmas" is part of the Through the Looking Glass series (guest pos...

AW: What was your first reaction to your child's diagnosis? D Goddess: It was, "SEE? I TOLD YOU SO!" Because I insisted they...

AW : What was your first reaction to your child's diagnosis? LS : I was sure that the psychologist got it wrong. While I knew something...

Some days I wonder if we were set up from the get-go to expect less, to hope for less, to dream of less. Bobby's prognosis was grim and ...

It was a cold March afternoon and I was stressed.  I decided to go to the consignment store to work away some of my blues.  Consignment stor...

I wrote the following post 03/30/2009 over at Detritus, as I was first getting involved in the online autism community. Hmmm. It's easy ...

My friend called me courageous today.  Me. Courageous. I don’t think anyone has ever called me that. I’m kind of reserved, a book worm, ...

My heart was racing. I was stuck in traffic in San Jose and it was clear that I'd be late for a meeting at Matthew's program in...