The Autism Experience

• Why We Fight

  Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
  
  - Jim Valvano
  
  
  We had an IEP meeting at the school this past Tuesday. Those of us who have been through this process know that IEP should really be a four-letter word.
  
  This wasn't a typical IEP meeting. A' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:26pm EST
  

• Close to Home- Third Update on the Bullying of an ASD Child at Hellgate Middle School

  ...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds...
  
  - Samuel Adams
  
  (note - for more information on this story, please read my first two posts on this issue - #1 and #2)[...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:44pm EST
  

• Alone

  To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
  
  - Suzanne Gordon
  
  My heart broke at 8am this morning. Again.
  
  There she stood, my oldest child, on the playground. I had dropped her off just a few minutes prior, and as I [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:04pm EST
  

• Close to Home - Two Weeks Later

  God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
  
  - Sir Walter Scott
  
  
  It's been almost two weeks since the first story appeared in the Missoulian about the 8th Grade boy with autism who was bullied' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:52pm EST