One Quarter Mama

The Emergency Chat app was created by an Autistic computer science student and it's seriously the best thing since sliced bread. It...

August has been a weird month for me. We don't have a bad life, so I can't complain, but do you ever feel like all sorts of curve b...

Why is eye contact important to you? I'm not asking to be facetious, but to understand. At the same time, it's a question I thin...

It wasn't until last year that the Little Man started speaking sentences, and even then, only we could understand him (and only sometim...

After I wrote Don't Put Words In My Mouth , I got great feedback in the form of a different perspective, saying they actually found so...

One of the first questions I answered online for a parent of an autistic child was about prompting. Prompting, when it comes to eliciting s...

I feel like I should know this secret language I told a co-worker my son was autistic and that he currently has a cold. I said my son...

The Little Man says things like, "up up high Dada living room!" which means he wants to watch "Baa Sheep" ( Wallace an...

This is a sad, but poignant article written by an autistic adult about how she was forced to stop her stimming behaviours. It is beautif...

I'm posting things mostly for my memory, but also because they're just funny. This is like the tourist phrase book for Little Man l...

Awww, Little Man took out his communication book, pointed to a picture of a cupcake and said, "eat?" Then he said, "cake....