autism

Photo Friday: Smiles

I’ve been thinking about Wednesday’s post ever since I hit “publish.” Mostly the part where I talked of searching through old photos and finding so many where Ryan looked, sad, scared, detached or confused.

I talked of how I always seem to remember those photos more than the ones where we got a picture of him flashing his wonderful smile.

Well, that’s not what I want to remember. So I went back to my photo archives. It took me all of 15 minutes to put together the following collection of nothing but smiles covering those same toddler years.

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Happy Friday, everyone. Have a great weekend — full of plenty of smiles.

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Summer’s Second Half

The question came up the other day, for the first time since school let out. “Dad, is summer more than halfway over?” Ryan asked. Last summer, and probably the few summers before that, this was a frequent question. We suspect it had to do with Ryan’s nerves about changing schools, but also his general need […]

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Recall vs. Understanding

Do you ever catch yourself wondering if your child on the autism spectrum perceives events the same way his peers do? The way you do? They way, ahem, normal people do? I used to find myself doing that a lot, but not so much anymore. When, as a younger child, Ryan didn’t show excitement about […]

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