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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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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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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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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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January 27, 2016 This is a bit of a departure from the usual TMR blogs. I am going to share a personal story that still makes me laugh to this day. We could all use a little comic relief from … Continue reading
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January 25, 2016 When my son first regressed, one of the pieces of information that I got from a fellow mom was to get on the waitlist for a Medicaid waiver immediately because the waitlist was astronomically long. I didn’t listen … Continue reading
January 13, 2016 Yesterday, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee met for only the second time since September of 2014. The IACC is the closest thing the federal government has to oversight on the exploding incidence of autism. Unfortunately, though the … Continue reading
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Ten years on Autism Road will take a lot out of you if you let it. It will completely suck you up, rip you to threads, and spit you back out. You have to fight your way through the darkness … Continue reading
Autism is so common these days (the latest estimate in the U.S. is 1 in 45 children) that the autism section of the bookstore or library doesn’t come close to resembling the autism section of 1975 when the autism rate … Continue reading
Jayliel Vega Batista, a five-year-old boy with autism, was found dead in the water today. I found myself shocked by the sheer ignorance of people’s comments . . . and the cruelty. People were saying this was “natural selection.” … Continue reading
