The DMC Speaks All About Their Research Project

When I began raising money for the DMC at Children’s Hospital Boston, I thought it might be interesting for those who donated to understand a bit more of the effort that is being undertaking to find the causes of Autism. After all, I had my own questions about what was being done, how [...]

Julien’s First Appointment at Children’s Hospital

Last Thursday, Julien and Kerstin visited the Children’s Hospital for his evaluation. This was the appointment that we’d started trying to schedule back in February and that we finally booked in May or so. It wasn’t easy to get it and it wasn’t an easy appointment to have.
When we booked it, Julien [...]

The Weight of a Diagnosis

This is the second of a multi-part series of postings that’ll describe our life with our son up to today. During the course of this series you’ll learn about the symptoms of an Autistic child that started to materialize in our son, how he received his diagnoses, the importance of a support network, the various [...]

A Star That Fell Through The Sky

I’ve received the feedback that although drawings, races and the health care system can be interesting, what people really want to know is about what parents of Autistic children go through in their day to day, so this posting is a response to that request. In fact, this is the first of a multi-part series [...]

Integrating Autistic People Into Society

The Wellesley Townsman published an article last week on my fund-raising campaign and and they keyed in on the fact that my goal is to ensure that Julien is integrated in society. The article’s author also had a child with Autism and during our interview she immediately understood what I meant by my this comment [...]

A nice surprise for a change

The difficult thing about parenting an Autistic kid is that after you finish defusing his meltdowns, driving him to his therapies, shepherding him through his daily routine, negotiating with his siblings who want the same “preferential treatment”, filling out paperwork to get him accepted to new therapies/interventions/special needs camps/evaluations, scheduling all the meetings with his [...]