December 21, 2009 I met Sam today, the son of the woman who told me Nicholas had Autism and who held me that first day when I cried. It wasn’t intentional this time, bumping into her son. I’d deliberately put myself in front of her with Nicholas that first day. I’d had a sudden wavering [...]
I’m adding my drop to the ocean of pages, literature, diagnostic criteria, and expert voices out there because in my life I don’t know if I will ever quite leave off the pain found in allowing my voice to wisp away in the presence of a person I saw as the expert more qualified than me. In her sight out of fear or I don’t even know what I placidly ignored what I knew.
October 26, 2009 I called the Regional Center today. It is an organization that provides help for families with kids who have special needs. I got a worker assigned for Nicholas. I described his symptoms and we used the word Autism and Autism spectrum a few times. It was all so civilized. Numbing the affability [...]
Dread fills me. Throbbing, dull pain radiates in my palms and fingers. I relax my stranglehold on the steering wheel, slowly loosening my grip, but it’s temporary. Within seconds, I am squeezing once more. I hate this journey, especially this one. The last visit I will make to see my mother. Duty is the purpose, [...]
There has been a lot of information and press around First Lady Michelle Obama’s Child Obesity Initiative and Let’s Move campaign along with Jamie Oliver’s program targeting school cafeteria food. The timing of these programs were brought about through necessity as our nations children and adults are becoming as Super-Sized as the fast food eateries [...]
