Small But Kinda Mighty

  The doctors pronounced Gavin Leong dead on Sunday night, April 14th, his mother's birthday. He had just turned five and a half last month. We knew it was coming after his mother, Kate, posted Without Ever Uttering a Word on her blog Friday night, but it was heartbreaking nonetheless. When I say 'we' I [...]

  I’ve found myself explaining to a number of people recently why I don’t support Autism Speaks, so I figured maybe it was just easier to write a blog post about it so all my reasons would be in one place that I could then just link to. Blogging inspired by laziness, if you will. [...]

  *Featured image is by Landon Bryce of ThAutcast: Aspergers and Autism Community* If Landon objects to my using the image he published on his Facebook page then I will of course take it down. The reason I used it is because, when I saw it this afternoon, it perfectly summed up what I had [...]

  *The images used in this post are of Privilege Denying Dude. You can find out about him at Know Your Meme.* Earlier this week, Autism and Oughtisms (who I've referred to as A&O from now on) published a blog post called The Privilege Game and as I read it I found myself disagreeing with [...]

Periodically I check if authors whose writing I like have anything new out that I haven’t read. One of the authors whose work I enjoy very much is Jon Krakauer. All his books are good in my opinion but my favourite is Into Thin Air – if you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it. [...]

  It’s at times like this that I wish I was eloquent. I wish I could adequately convey how much my heart aches for everyone affected by what happened in Connecticut on Friday. My twins are in the first grade at school so you can imagine what I’ve been thinking. When Owen woke up during [...]

  *trigger warning* there are some phrases and pictures in this post that some of you might find disturbing. I’ve had a draft of this post in my inbox since September but it’s been percolating in my head for even longer than that. I can’t believe it’s been over a year since I wrote my [...]

  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about iPads and screentime. Parents concerned about screen time will often state that they prefer their children to play with educational rather than purely ‘fun’ apps. I’m going to disagree with that a little, at least as far as my developmentally atypical children are concerned. [...]

On Friday, the autism blog Left Brain Right Brain, highlighted an article that appeared in The Atlantic, titled The 15-Year FalloutFrom One Man’s Lie About Vaccines. The Atlantic article was actually a precis of several of the points Sam Harris outlined in his book, Lying, but the article’s title focused on one point Harris made [...]

This is my second post regarding the process I went through in order to get Oliver and Owen placed within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The first post can be found here and is an outline of the services we accessed and steps taken up to and including school registration. This next step would [...]