So beautiful, brought tears to my eyes.

Great interview! And I too feel emotions across room but seems to be mostly when I am connected to someone or want to? Glad isn't just me :) Love the kitty :)

:). Well said my friend.

Ann Marie I certainly was not trying to be a bully. I was trying to understand. I am thankful that Jill smo came over to my blog and explained it calmly on my blog post so I could understand. After her explanation (and a couple of other people) i understand when someone says they hate autism it is not an attack on all autistics, it is hating the behaviors and feeling helpless to help your child sometimes. As a mother of an autistic with a history of many behavior issues i understand and i understand everyone is on a different journey and has a different experience. As an aspie i sometimes take things literally and perseverate. Sometimes i say things in an emotional manner and just need someone to help me work through it. I don't believe I was saying your emotion has no value and I am sorry you felt that way. I am sorry that I upset you. I hope the best for your son and family.

So I am new to this self advocacy thing because I am newly self diagnosed. I always knew I was different but it wasn't until my son was diagnosed that I went through this other journey of self diagnosis. Every online test I take screams yes you are an Aspie. Anyways maybe I am different but the most offensive things (so far) that have offended me are words like "epidemic" and "cure" and "I hate autism" or "autism sucks". Even prior to my self diagnosis I have always said that I think it is okay to want to help your child work on certain behaviors to a certain extent. For my son it was that he would meltdown and then hit others. No matter how brilliant he was no one would see that if he was hitting them. For another parent they are just trying to get their child to communicate. Of course that is my son's underlying issue as well and the meltdown was his way of communicating. Part of his communicating is self advocacy. In order for him to self advocate he must first have acceptance. If he is on the journey of acceptance and he constantly sees negative language it will affect him to his core. I understand, all parents that I have met would literally walk through fire for their kids (well maybe not the one's in my blog post today but lets stick to the great parents I have met in social media) but when they use certain words it hits a nerve and causes an emotional reaction. I have been trying to figure out a way to write a blog post thoroughly about this without being offensive to parents. But someone please help me understand why the words need to be used? For example I am all about saying Fuck but I decided for the most part on my blog I would not use that word because it is offensive to some people. Some of my co-workers find it offensive so I don't say it around them. I think it in my head but I don't say it or put it in print because I know someone else attaches a different emotion to that word. Why can't parents realize that we attach an emotion to those words and try to not put them in writing on their blog post? I am trying to understand the other side of the argument.
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Sunday! Great idea :)
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At our old house the laundry was in the basement so we regularly had piles of dirty laundry like that. Now that the laundry room is off the family room we keep up a bit better. But then our family room is sometimes full of baskets of clean clothes- sometimes folded & sometimes just a pile. Are you saying this isn't normal??

Agree - replace reddit with pinterest, facebook, and other blogs and I can accomplish the list every day. Awesome!! I am really good at doing stupid things. Just this morning I got my coffee cup tangled up in my laptop cord and spilled coffee everywhere! Yay me!!
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Sigh I had similar Valentine's Day. Hang in there! (hugs)