Tag: autism
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The Prevalence of Autism
I was having a conversation with a friend who works primarily with disability advocacy and bureaucracy. We were discussing the rise in autism diagnoses. The prevalence of autism has become much higher. Or has it? The diagnostic criteria has changed significantly in the past twenty years. So have the incentives for testing. Are we really…
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Perseverating on God
Perseverate:(verb, intransitive, chiefly psychology) To persist in doing something; to continue to repeat an action after the original stimulus has ended. I am on the autism spectrum. One of the things about most of us is that we perseverate on things. Some autistics perseverate on Legos, or trains, or scripts from movies and songs. I…
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A Plumber and a Pill
Today my dad called a plumber to find out why our upstairs bathroom is leaking. The plumber got here before my dad did so I showed him how the problem is affecting all three levels of the house. The plumber went to work. He took things apart. He ran water in the tub he was…
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Losing My Phone
I dreamed I lost my cell phone again, that the person who took it from me also dismantled it, and that I had to reassemble it when I finally got it back. I have a sense that my phone isn’t really mine and my subconscious agrees. Granted it’s only been actually stolen once and I…
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The Hyperalert Crash
Lately I’ve been having trouble waking up on time. Years of being hyperalert because of the boys autism is really starting to catch up with me. This week has been worse than normal. I was late for the day program driver and barely had time to get dressed before the appointment with the boys’ nurse.…
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Plushies
My youngest son has 20 or 30 stuffed and plastic animals that he keeps on his bed. Some of them are big and they cover almost the whole bed. He has so many plushies that he can’t sleep properly in the bed now. So… he fell asleep in my bed. I cleared his bed and…
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Autism and the Internet
I have a pet peeve about poorly cropped and framed memes. The above meme took me about ten minutes to clean off the black and white lines all over it. This just looks much better than the original to me. You can still spot the places I’ve touched up if you had the original image,…
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On the floor
Our youngest son is sitting on the kitchen floor and eating his chicken nuggets. This is odd behavior even for him. He usually sits at the table or on the couch. Stephanie asked him why he was sitting on the floor but he didn’t answer her. I asked him if he was a goof. He…
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11%
I am running the battery of my phone to zero. I have been assured that this is good for both the life of the phone and the life of the battery. I however have to be careful how I do this as early in the night as it is. You see, and I’ve probably told…
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Autism can be Violent
Most days I like the idea of having more kids. Today is not one of those days. I used to tell them, “No blood, no bruises? Drive on!” This week there have been blood and bruises. My kids are not inherently violent but they are also not inherently good at regulating themselves so that they…
Latter Day Sinner 