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When All You Can Draw is a Blank
Right before starting my freshman year in high school, I spent a week visiting my college-age cousin in Brooklyn. It all felt very grown-up, with her living in the studio apartment she shared with a...
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Asperger’s and Motherhood (Part 4)
This is the fourth in a series of posts about being a mom with Asperger’s. If your middle school years were anything like mine, you may find yourself dreading them on behalf of your child. Middle...
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Asperger’s and Motherhood (Part 5)
This is the fifth in a series of posts about being a mom with Asperger’s. As adolescence drags on–yes, some days it feels like it will never end–you may run into some serious challenges. The child who...
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Beyond The Talk: What Else Autistic Girls Need to Know About Puberty
This was originally posted at a group blog that I’m part of: We Are Like Your Child. It primarily addresses parents of young autistics, but I’m reposting here because I thought other autistic adults...
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At the Intersection of Gender and Autism – Part I
Note: This is my contribution to the Ultraviolet Voices anthology. It’s nearly 5000 words long, so I’m going to serialize it here over the next 3 weeks. At five, I wanted to be a boy. I don’t know...
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Chronologically Out of Step
When our daughter Jess was little, her dad and I used to take her to see a lot of animated movies. Jess and I really enjoyed them, but The Scientist often dozed off twenty minutes into the film. He...
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