Because I Know You are beautiful You are absolutely beautiful Can you not see what a beauty you are? When people hurt you They do not see you They do not know you They do not realize You are beyond them A mystery The unknown It scares them They expect things that cannot be They [...]
Unintended gifts: A friend sent me an email today, then frantically called me (several times) and messaged me on Google. He was trying to catch me before I read it. You see, he had not intended to send me what he did. He blogs, like I do, and he had intended to email it [...]
I was told today that no normal person would ever want to be with someone who had Asperger’s. I was also told that I couldn’t possibly have it, because I was happy about something that happened yesterday. A friend of mine related to me, a story from his work and how he made an ‘Aspie’s [...]
BALANCING THE TRAY by Lenore Gerould (1996), Carbon-Lehigh Right to Education Task Force, Schnecksville, PA. Distributed by Autism Services Center, Huntington, WV by kind permission of the author. Those of us who have daily contact with children with autism sometimes have trouble explaining to regular education teachers or administrators the ‘hooks’ of autism; especially the [...]