Autism bloggers
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Since Brooks is officially on summer vacation, I’m feeling the need to switch gears myself. Instead of a personal vignette this week, I’d like to use this post to introduce you to two excellent autism bloggers I’ve come to know over the past year.
Janice Wright is a fellow ASD (autism spectrum disorder) Nest mom in Queens who blogs her son, DuckyBoy (DB). She often writes about his social challenges, which I recognize immediately: “DB wants to play with other kids but also wants to impose an ever-increasing, and advantageous-to-him, series of rules. Like, halfway through a race, he’ll change the finish line…to be whatever he’s closest to.”
Jeff Stimpson and Jill Cornfield are a husband-and-wife team who blog about their experiences with Alex, their autistic son. I was recently introduced to them via an excellent Yahoo newsgroup, spectrumparentNYC, and I particularly enjoyed Jill’s post about buying huge wall letters at Urban Outfitters for her son: “They’re big, they’re expensive, they take up a ton of room, they make an echoing, clattering sound when they hit the floor. But my boy loves them, and they are the very building blocks of words, of communication itself. So we’ll get rid of some toys and focus on these for a while.” So funny and so familiar.
Although I’ve never met DuckyBoy or Alex, I feel compelled to check in on them frequently to see what they will do next, as they simultaneously torture, entertain and, ultimately, delight their families.
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Thanks for the shout-out, Marni! We’ll have to meet with the boys one of these days so DuckyBoy can try to beat Brooks at something, haha!
I find it so helpful to read other parents’ experiences, especially with a child a year or so younger, like Brooks is, or older, like another mom blogger and who has an Aspergers boy: Kari of http://www.karianna.us/blog/.
Comment by janny226 — July 11, 2009 @ 2:27 pm