An empty day fills Isaac with the fidgets. A long weekend on the horizon, and his internal mind map mutates into a desolate landscape; where boredom billows and unknowns
“Daddy, Eric Clapton is not a great man.” It was one of Isaac’s straight-faced sirens-to-attention. Sincere and serious. Thrust out of thin air and declared in his testing, testing
The everyday lexicon of parenting has seldom spoken to me. Rather than chiming, the toddler-and-beyond truisms would detonate my brittle mind. “They grow up so quickly”, “she changes all
Will I feel comfortable with Isaac being aware of this blog as and when he acquires the ability to? That I’m actually penning this pontification suggests futility writ large.
As a fairly steadfast secular Jew, religion in its singular, most fundamental form was never going to be an (al)mighty force in Isaac’s upbringing. Secular Judaism serves up head-scratchers
This article originally appeared on the Huffington Post An abundance of autism signposts pings off the screen in the opening 10 minutes of this broadly realistic drama. Our five
I was delighted to be asked to review In A Different Key for the publisher, Pelican Books. Here’s what I wrote: There’s a brief but reflective detour in this
The very things that many people think make the world go round, actually make the world go wrong for anyone associated with autism. Hustle and bustle, chin-wagging, dropping everything
How Isaac’s autism plays out physically never used to weigh too heavily on me. Mainly because it was as a mental condition that I’d feel its full force. With
Is it too severe to say autism serves up a degree of daily dread on parents? Perhaps not. There’s certainly a never ending sense of uncertainty. We awake to
