Author: Monkeynism AKA Autism

I'm the mom of a beautiful boy, who happens to have autism.

Today we win.

I was talking to our in-home trainer a while back, and I was letting her know that my monkey just simply does not want to write anything. He hates it. He hates using a crayon, pencil, you name it, he hates it. He fights us. He feels it’s work and he hates it. She suggested…

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Open doors.

As I was getting ready to go to an all day meeting, I’m in my office and I quickly check Facebook. I get a notification that I have memories. And in there is a video, where my monkey was less than a year old, and my husband is asking him to count. I’m recording, my…

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We will be okay.

The monkey loves to be outside with his doggies and jump on the trampoline. What I love about our backyard is that it is secure. The gates are locked and he is unable to get out. When he jumps, I leave the doors open and I roll up the blinds from all of our windows….

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We want to wish our Autism families a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!! 🦃❤️  

Thankful.

We will be hosting a Thanksgiving lunch today for some of my husband’s students. Many of them haven’t had the opportunity to celebrate Thanksgiving in the traditional sense. To thank them for their hard work, we invited them over to our home. That means last night we had to fight the crowds at the grocery…

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