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Echolalia: That’s What She Said
When my daughter Jess was a toddler, we had a set of board books about the Disney Babies, which were the “baby” versions of Mickey, Minnie and Donald. Jess loved these books. For months, every night we...
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Silence I: Frustration
The first in a 3-part series on silence. * My silence is frustrating. For me. For others. I don’t mean the silence between the words, the comfortable kind, the long drive in the car, relaxed lunch in...
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Silence II: Variation
I have more than one kind of silence. There is the very bad kind, the crushing kind. That one I could do without. There is also the heavy silence. I can force the words to come out, but each one is an...
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Uncooperative Words and Where I Go From Here
Something strange is going on in my brain. Aside from the usual strangeness, I mean, which I’m quite used to. Back in March I wrote about my missing word problem. Over the past few months, I’ve...
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The One Where I Talk About Why Talking is Hard
Today, I’m interrupting the sensory processing series to do something a little different. Okay, a lot different. I had originally planned to make a video blog about sensory diet to run today. What...
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Pronoun Reversal and Confusion
One of the obvious early signs of autism in children is pronoun reversal. All toddlers have difficulty with learning the correct usage of I, me and you. However, sometime between two-and-a-half and...
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Chronologically Out of Step
When our daughter Jess was little, her dad and I used to take her to see a lot of animated movies. Jess and I really enjoyed them, but The Scientist often dozed off twenty minutes into the film. He...
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