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  • Parent Autism Blog

  • Welcome to the parent autism blog at Autism Epicenter. This is an online journal written directly by parents of children with ASD. We'll share the triumphs and challenges as well as anything else that comes to our minds as related to Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

    Two parents post here:

    - Shane
    Autism Dad and the founder of Autism Epicenter. His son was born in 2002 and diagnosed in 2004 with classic autism.

    - Sherri
    Mother of "Sir Dantes". He was born in 2007 and diagnosed in 2009. "Ms. Maxie" is her typical daughter (doesn't have autism). Sherri works full time and blogs because she finds it to be therapeutic.

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"All kids do that," she says.

After telling of some episode about our son, who is 9 and has autism, we often get the response, "Yeah, but all kids do that." Let me tell you how much we hate hearing that! Why? Because we feel like our situation is being minimized by someone who doesn'… more »

Shouldn't More Responsibility Fall on Us Parents?

We attended Braden's annual IEP Meeting the other day. Aside from the boredom and the boredom (lots of boredom) of sitting still in a seat for almost two hours, it was relatively pain-free. more »

Climbing the Stairs

When I first started to blog here I mainly wrote about frustrations. While I still do express frustration, I would like to think that my blogging has evolved some to include triumphs, hopes, lobbying, and information. Daily life includes all of these t… more »

Shoe Laces Tailor Made for Autism... or Not.

Tying shoe laces. It becomes an issue when you have a kid with autism. And after their feet reach a certain size it gets really difficult to find velcro shoes. Well, we're at that point.Braden, our son with autism, is 9. And his shoes are size 7. Bra… more »