It’s Not Okay To Stare! Braving the World of Special-Needs Parenting

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February 22, 2016 As parents, we hope that people look at our children with kindness, understanding and admiration. Being stared at by strangers (and sometimes even by people you know) and judged for what they perceive as bad parenting is … Continue reading

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When on the Road to Healing Your Child You Discover a New World

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February 18, 2016 My son Dan was officially diagnosed with autism when he was three. Before that, life was so good. My husband and I lived in Manhattan. I was an attorney, and he was a law professor. We spent … Continue reading

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ADHD, PANDAS and Myself: Finding the Best Version of Me

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September 23, 2013 On this blog I’m known as Trinity, which is the name of the main character in one of the stories I’m writing, not my real name. As I type this, I am sitting next to five Thinking … Continue reading

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Will Threat of Prosecution Make Vaccines “Mandatory” in Canada?

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February 11, 2016 Last May at the AutismOne conference in Chicago, TMR met David Stephan. We’re pretty good judges of character, and David immediately struck us as a wonderful human being and a loving and caring father — which made … Continue reading

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To Rosie O’Donnell from an Autism Mom: WTF?

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February 9, 2016 Girl, dafuq? So you crack a joke about wanting to trade each of your troublesome teens for “triplets with autism.” Then you get all prickly when the joke bombs. At first, I think, Oh bless her heart. … Continue reading

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From the CDC Blog: Parenting Advice 2016

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February 9, 2016 We’re off to a great start in 2016. We were in lots of planning meetings in January, following which we thought we’d recap on CDC’s parenting policies new and old going into the new year: Women – … Continue reading

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Feminism Is About More Than a Glass Ceiling

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 February 8, 2016 Gloria Steinem, 81-year-old feminist icon and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss her new book and, during the course of the interview, stated that younger millenial women are more enthusiastic about … Continue reading

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The Ups and Downs of Life with PANS

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February 3, 2016 Screaming, red-faced with panic in her eyes, like a wild animal caged and in fear of losing its life if it didn’t escape. This is what my daughter looked like as she tried to jump out of … Continue reading

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Why Do You Keep Saying to Listen to Your Mommy Gut?

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February 2, 2016 When our son was born, I knew we didn’t want to vaccinate right away, circumcise, or do eye drops. And we didn’t. The pediatrician and I made an agreement that we would do vaccines one at a … Continue reading

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They’ve Found “the Autism Gene”? Don’t Be Misinformed

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February 1, 2016 It has come to our attention at TMR that there is at least one “science blogger” claiming “we’ve actually found the one thing” that causes autism. “A University of North Carolina researcher actually found the gene that causes autism,” … Continue reading

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