April is Autism Awareness Month. Today, we'd like to introduce you to just some of the many bloggers who write about autism on WordPress.com.
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Great bloggers. Erin Hunt at Rocky Parenting has great stories from the heart to share also. http://rockyparenting.com/category/erin-hunt/
This is very moving! As a therapist I see a lot of parents really struggling to parent their child with autism!
Wow! Cool! I am writing a series of short stories about Autism.
Great to read other bloggers who are parenting autistic children too. It can be a very isolated world for a parent so it’s nice to have feelers out there and months like this to raise awareness and connect individuals.
Great resources – thank you!
I am a teacher support, and for three years I have had the good fortune to live in the school hours, with an autistic boy. It was an experience not easy, but exciting! Autistic children are the champions of the absolute.
Thank you for sharing! I have an autistic son and so many do not understand his perspective. They think he is just being a “bratty” kid. What they don’t understand is that every word spoken and every action taken is taken literal.
Both great blogs, however it would be refreshing to see blogs about those that have high functioning autism with aspergers. While the children (including my 10 year old son) are exceptionally brilliant and well spoken; the social ineptitude combined with OCD that can cause severe violent meltdowns from children that otherwise have a heart of gold and would never hurt anyone intentionally…. well sometimes it is parents like us that feel the most alone and forgotten in the autism spectrum.
Unfortunately many of our autistic children are misunderstood. Because of this, when they become adults they end up in our nations prisons. I am glad you are taking this month to educate folks about autism. It is common for us to fear those things we do not understand. Hopefully this month folks will get a better understanding of the autistic person and learn to better deal with them rather than to fear or detest them.
Incidentally I have a teenage grandson with Asperger’s. He is a great big brother to his two younger siblings, and a terrific artist. His public school teacher has a special wall in her classroom for his drawings of historical characters the class has been studying. The class makes comments on them much like on Facebook. Thus far all such comments have been complimentary.
Life is not so much the hand we have been dealt, but much rather how we play it.
I firmly believe autism must get a better and more possitive visibility in our society and all of us as parentes, teachers, health professionals, journalists, writters, bloggers and artists can help creating healthier and more compassionate perspectives to share in our communities and the society at large. I am very pleased to find these blogs featured here!
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Congratulations to all these bloggers who have the courage to share these insights about living with Autism or Loving someone who has Autism. I am a member of this community and proud to say I have loved someone and lived with someone with Autism for 32 years. Thanks for sharing…..
Thank you so much for posting these links, my brother is severely autistic and I will be having a read of these blogs- I’m new to blogging and would like to create a blog on autism of my own, good to know there are blogs on autism out there!