Monkeynism AKA Autism

On his own. ❤️💙

This is my non-verbal, seven year old son with autism. The day that we were diagnosed, about 5 years ago, the pediatric neurologist told us not to expect much from him. He said we would get our hopes crushed.My son has learned how to swim. He learned how to put his head slightly under the…

Your voice

My son started school this week. I’m so grateful that his teacher has first and second graders, which means we get to have the same teacher from last year. She’s the sweetest most patient person I have met. And we also get to keep both paraprofessionals! It’s a win win. This year, the first graders…

To Forgive

Last Sunday, we were at home. My daughter was at work. It was a crazy morning. I was trying to work from home, and the monkey was running around, he was extra hyper that day. My husband was doing some work around the house. A typical morning. We got distracted. We were not paying attention….

Hug our kids tonight.

My husband and I have been discussing what would we do if we were out and about with the monkey and there would be a catastrophic event, a mass shooting, a fire, or a natural disaster. These situations are very difficult for anyone, but I feel the gravity of the situation increases drastically for special…

The letter A

A post from the hubby: The letter A. Our monkey is all about order. One of the things that he does when he sees letters that are not symmetrical or accurate aligned, he will re-align the letters to his satisfaction. My wife has written about this before. A few days ago, we were in the…

Humming. ♥️

Last night was very windy. The noise caused the monkey to wake up and come over to our bed. He slid right in the middle of my husband and me. I tried to get him to go back to sleep but he was wide awake. I kept telling him, “Go to sleep. It’s 2:30. C’mon…

ABCs

Like many kids with autism, my son is obsessed with order and routine. He gets consumed with repetitive behavior. We always to try teach him that the world is not like that. We want to explain to him that on the contrary, the world usually comes with disorder. But one of the things that help…

Not going to therapy! 🤣😂

He’s so funny! 😂 Nope. Not going to therapy today! 🤣

Laughing.

The monkey loves to go to my parents house. Loves it. My parents have a small swing set in the back and he will be out there for hours. It’s extremely secure, fenced in, and my dad has an additional wood fence around the entire house as well. It’s perfect. My parents will be outside…

Annual trip.

We just got back from our annual vacation with our friends. It’s a great, week-long trip of enjoying our friends, new cities to explore, and no kiddos. I always feel very guilty in leaving the monkey. I know he’s a lot of work and I don’t feel very comfortable doing that. But like every year,…