The Meaning of a Picture

Something interesting happened at the Michigan-Rutgers game Saturday night. No, not Michigan’s loss. Those are becoming routine. No, not that Michigan put 10 men out on a special-teams play, again. No not that Michigan mismanaged the clock, again. You get the picture. No, this interesting thing happened before the game. We had settled into our […]

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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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Foreshadowing

 foreshadowing fore·shad·ow [fawr-shad-oh, fohr-] verb (used with object) – to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war. I was looking through old photos recently, when I stumbled across two that caused me to stop and think about the funny ways the universe works. They immediately brought to mind two other, more much recent […]

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