I remember when she came to me. All aglow; from her head to her toes. I remember that clearly. “Time to go,” she announced. “We’ve finally found a home for you. They’ll be a challenge of course, but you will find all that you need to accomplish your journey.” I was thrilled, but also afraid. [...]
Where’s the box? A question asked by my granddaughter of her new stepmother. This and variations of this question were asked and shows such a vast difference in our society today then say, just a mere sixty years ago. When you think sixty years in ones’ lifetime, yes that is a lot of time; but [...]
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.
LOVE matters. LOVE counts. LOVE is a Priceless, Inseparable, Unconditional Bond. Yet, what fills & thrills the soul of Human Beings from birth on, is being enjoyed. JOY is a state of being that happens by choice. We allow it to happen, We cause it to happen, We intend it to happen and it does. [...]
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 [...]
I am in AWE of your magnificence, of the power of you, of your ability to be, of your unconditional love for me, for all. I am in AWE of you. I see you. I hear you. I know you. I hear your NOBLE REQUESTS to be warm, to be cool, to be fed, to be near, [...]
By Anastasia Cassella-Young This poem was written about a lovely woman who is surely bound for sainthood if she hasn’t already achieved it. She has adopted a huge, lovely family whilst going through a few medical hardships of her own. There is no count Of the lives of the children she’s touched. Her love hasn’t [...]
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 [...]
On Mother’s Day I feel a need to reflect. There are things I’ve learned as a direct result of my walk with my son’s Autism. There are things that I think have value and ones I would not trade even if it meant I could suddenly wake up to a son who could say my [...]
Again we must remember the spectral aspect of Autism. If we view it like a rainbow in our minds we can follow it through all the way across. We see mild at one end, and the bigger parts all edging toward the middle, all the way to the furthest extreme side. So we when speak [...]
