Full Spectrum Mama

 I was talking with a very close friend about a crisis* G had in school last week and, after I’d been blabbing for some time, she said, “W...

If you haven’t already got one, I suggest you find yourself a Meeting Friend. What I mean by this is we all need someone who is in a simil...

Dear Readers, I am sorry to inform you that Full Spectrum Mama is taking a little “vacation.” It seems that when she picked up her c...

Having, now, about two hours of the school year left and counting, I went tooling around the internet and found this post: http://lostandt...

This morning I ran into a colleague while having an oil change. I told her I was “pretty excited” about something, I don’t even remember w...

One initially formative idea for Full Spectrum Mama was that if something worked in our household it might be useful across a wide range o...

We were driving home from Grandmother and Grandfather’s house in one of those monsoon-like storms that seem to be getting less uncommon when...

Ah, summer: that special time when school is out and those of us who are primary caregivers to young children and who either cannot afford ...

Another way to approach my Full Spectrum household is through a lens of boundaries: Z habitually smashes them, while G is often unaware of...

Everybody loves to give diet suggestions to people with autism (or their parents). The range of regimens that has been suggested to me is ...