Author: Monkeynism AKA Autism

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

Practice.

I attended an autism conference a few weeks ago and one of the things that stayed with me was practice. The speaker said that if we want our kids to know how to swim, we take them to practice. If we want them to know how to ride a bike, we practice with them. If…

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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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