Writing the good read
My son turns 17 today. He’s a typical teenager: sleeps a lot, eats a lot, answers complex questions with a grunt, and complains that the world is “not fair!” I love him to death. I don’t always like his behavior (that’s my shrink talking; can you tell?). He’s mildly autistic, has ADD and a mild…
My son, as you know, is mildly autistic. One of his longest lasting super-interests has been politics. He talks about it, argues about it, makes the exasperated noises usually uttered by older, more jaded people. I came home from the store today, and Darling Son came rushing to the garage, looking guilty, like he’d been…
When I was a child, a weekend loomed like a vast expanse of free time. As a single working mom, the weekend looms as a vast expanse of chores and to-do lists. So when I was asked to be a part of a parent panel teaching would be teen volunteers about life with an autistic…