From the category archives:

Childhood

Sensory Processing Disorder Book Review: I’m Not Weird, I Have SPD by Chynna Laird

August 13, 2009

Talk about echoes of my childhood and my present with my Sensory Processing Disorder (a.k.a. Sensory Integrative Dysfunction).
In the book, I’m Not Weird, I have SPD, author Chynna Laird uses descriptive words like:  hurt, screamed, pain, and scared. Those are words that I use to this day as an adult with SPD.
Sensory overload still [...]

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Magic in my childhood mind with autism

April 15, 2009

I was asked what was the magical part of my childhood as a person with autism.  With such a question, it took me days to choose one memory over the others.
One Island Lake.  It was a magical place, a sandy beach hemmed in by trees with a shoreline that curved inward toward the beach.  I [...]

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If I could have drawn this when I didn’t talk

March 19, 2009

Today, my daughter, who does not have autism, gave this to me, her mother who has autism.
I’m sending this post to my Mum because when I was a kid I didn’t show much or say much, but I sure did love her.
How do I love thee, let me count the ways:  oranges in the summer, [...]

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