Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose Aimed at adults who have already heard the starting gun, these are three things that Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) and Dan Pink (Drive) have written about in terms of meaningful work and a meaningful life. These are also incredibly important parts of growing up. As infants and toddlers, the focus [...]
Also tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, Life, Mastery, passionAutism blogger Lisa Jo Rudy once challenged parents to “quit autism for just one day.” Your child with autism may always be autistic, but there are places and circumstances in which it either doesn’t matter – or in which your child’s special talents make autism irrelevant. Whether it’s at the beach, in the woods, at [...]
Also tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, LifeI have had a lot of teachers throughout my life. Some taught me because they were paid to, some because they were supposed to, and some because they wanted to. Many of the best teachers in my life, though, had no idea that they were teaching me. (Or, perhaps more accurately, that I was learning [...]
Also tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, LifeEvery now and then when I’m out with friends, or introducing myself to someone new, the topic of conversation winds its way around to autism. Sometimes the person knows someone who has an autistic child/niece/nephew/etc, or maybe they have an autistic child themselves. Since I am the parent of an autistic son they ask me [...]
Also tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awareness, LifeEvery year when April – otherwise known as Autism Awareness Month – rolls around, I ask myself, “Awareness? Awareness of what exactly?” In the past I have often forgotten my own advice and tried to find a “one-size-fits-all” answer to the question. (My advice: there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all for anything.) Some years [...]
Also tagged acceptance, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, awarenessYesterday I participated in a Twitter party hosted by @TheOnlineMom * to discuss the questions: How much do we trust our kids online? Can we monitor them closely and build trust? The focus of the discussion was, as the topic questions hint at, how do we keep our kids safe? How do we protect them from all [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Balance, learning, Life, technologyThis is a repost of something I originally wrote in the summer of 2007. Three years old, but just as relevant now as it was then. – – — — —– Last summer (2006) in the post “Men must attend IEP meetings”, I quoted Charles Fox of the Special Education Law Blog on the important role men can [...]
Also tagged Asperger's Syndrome, autism, Education, IEPIt is easy to look at ‘the younger generation’ and think, “Wow, these kids really know computers and networking.” I used to think along the same lines. I mean, how could they use such cool tools and not want to know how they work, not take the time to figure out what makes them tick. [...]
Also tagged 2.0, Security, Social MediaI’ve blogged for many years, shared photos on Flickr and video on YouTube, and more recently joined Twitter and Facebook. Finding the line for any parent is challenging, but as the parent of an autistic son the question of how much – and what – to share about my family in public (the blog, twitter) [...]
Also tagged autism, Balance, Blogging, Life, Social Media, SocialMediaObserverAs any parent of an autistic child knows, the tendency of our kids to perseverate is a fact of life. Or, at least, it looks like perseveration to us, but it quite possibly could be good old fashioned perseverance. The distinction between “perseverate” and “persevere” is one that I often wondered about. What I’ve come [...]
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