Mum Is Thinking

The story of Alex B, a 5 year old kindergarten student voted out of his class at the urging of his teacher http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-stud ents-vote-out-classmate-5/ , is heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measures. I honestly can’t imagine how the state attorney’s office could find these actions didn’t qualify as emotional abuse, I’m as flabbergasted at that […]

I saw this link on Michelle Dawson’s Quick Topic Forum ( http://www.quicktopic.com/27/H/vJvhV4fDnBgw7 ) today:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19726414.300-vo ices-of-autism-silenced-by-charity.html
It’s so frustrating to see the first part of the article and not the rest!
I love New Scientist, it’s a habit forming read But I’ve been so busy this last year I’ve actually forgotten to buy it for several […]

I’m s’posed to be doing other stuff, but I’m so intrigued by this story– http://autisticbfh.blogspot.com/2008/01/autism-speaks-silenc es-autistic-child.html –that I can’t think of much else at the moment. Which is effecting my ability to work. It’s become like that song you can’t get out of your head; it’s bugging the heck out of me. I have SO […]

After not writing anything for a few months I decided to test the waters again the other day. I don’t generally like writing, in fact, I hate it worse than matching socks, my least favourite household chore. My husband must have 200 black socks (well, it SEEMS like that many when they’re all in the […]

Howdy!
Howdy howdy howdy
It’s been almost a year since I wrote my last blog post, and boy have I been busy!
Busy busy busy
I’ve been keeping up to date with most of the other Hub bloggers, and thank you all for all the fantastic fodder for thought through the last year. […]

I painted this over the last couple of days: unusual for me that I also made a preliminary work in watercolour and ink, so for once I have a hard copy sitting at my elbow. Digital painting seems so natural to me, switching back to traditional work ends up tedious and annoying. And messy. […]

Well, here I am…as usual a day late and a dollar short But I don’t want to miss contributing something to PosAutive Day, so here we go!
I have my fingers crossed that I post these right, I’ve never posted anything from YouTube before…
I wanted to pick a couple of fun videos. I’ve enjoyed many […]

Time: 11:30 pm
Place: My bedroom
My son says:
Sometimes when I can’t sleep it’s because of the hot stomach feeling, mum (and I crumble inside¦oh, my baby¦we don’t know if that’s related to the spikes that show up on his eeg’s, or if it’s something physically bothering him)¦and sometimes I can’t sleep because there are too many […]

I had a very interesting, funny and enjoyable experience yesterday
It was the first meeting of our social skills class, this time parents only. I’ve attended other classes through our local speech pathology group, so I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know some of the children and parents who attend fairly well, but […]

If you’re not in the mood for rambling, you might want to skip this post. Consider this fair warning
I’ve decided to give up reading autism research stuff for awhile. The last few reports I’ve heard of autism research findings have left me sputtering in annoyance, and the only comments I can think to […]