About EnjoyHi5!Autism Babymiracle2005
Wife 15 years, Moomie 5 years, community leader, disability advocate, events planner, strategic trainer, FUNdraiser, blogger, social networker
Navigating the holidays can be a tricky landscape– there are usually too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Can you relate? I have found with the right support and mindset in place, creating new traditions and fun memories can help … Continue reading →
Posted in advise, celebrations, contentment, family dynamics, Family fun!, holidays, public
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Tagged children, Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, family, food, fun, games, Healthy Families, holiday, holidays, honesty, inspiration, kids, memories, mindset, openness, relatives, support, traditions, willingness
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Happy New Year! Enjoy Taniaann Marshall’s inspirational ‘AspienWoman Mentor Interview Series’ on author Jeanette Purkis. TedX presenter Purkis is the author of Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures With Asperger Syndrome. Jeanette has a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome. She also has … Continue reading →
Posted in advise, books, perspective, Uncategorized
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Tagged Asperger's Syndrome, Aspergers, AspienWoman, AspienWoman Mentor Interview Series', author, autism, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures With Asperger Syndrome, inspirational, Jeanette Purkis, Kingsley Publisher, Taniaann Marshall, TedX
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“Even those with Autism and disabilities can make a great and wonderful difference in this world and even they can fulfill their dreams and goals. ” – D.J. Svoboda Get ready for the 2014 with Daniels ‘Imagifriends of Imagiville’ … Continue reading →
Posted in art, DONATIONS, Family fun!, holidays, no bullying zone, perspective, school, thinking outside the box
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Tagged antibullying, antibullying campaign, art, artist, autism, Autism Awareness, autism spectrum, awareness, book, bully, bullying, calenda, calendar, coloring book, Consciousness raising, Daniel Svoboda, DJ Svoboda, Friends, Global Autism Awareness, Imagifriends, imagination, inspiration, interview, iTunes, Marilyn Shannon, music, My Imagiville, ReEnchant Planet Earth, song, Speak Up, Take A Stand
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20 Percent: The diminished likelihood that you were born on Christmas, compared with an average day. Perhaps largely because many cesarean births can be scheduled in advance, doctors and patients seem to avoid certain days — and choose certain others. … Continue reading →
Posted in advise, celebrations, family dynamics, FYI, holidays, medical, perspective, public, research
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Tagged April Fool's Day, Autumn, child, children, Christmas, Easter, Fall, family, Fat Tuesday, Father's Day, Grandparents' Day, Halloween, holiday, holidays, Independence Day, July 4, kids, Labor Day, Leap Day, Mardi Gras Day, Memorial Day, Mother's Day, Spring, Summer, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, weekend, Winter
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Rubella, the MMR Vaccination, and Autism In this particular blog I will continue expanding on my line of thinking regarding what I consider to be the basic abnormality in the brains of individuals with autism spectrum […] via Cortical Chauvinism … Continue reading →
Posted in health, perspective, research, Uncategorized
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Tagged Andrew Wakefield, autism, MMR vaccine, MMR vaccine controversy, Psychiatry, Rubella, University of Louisville, Vaccine
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Welcome Home. Thanks for your sacrificial service. We appreciate our soldiers and military personnel who are still in harms way. This Veterans holiday, we hope you ‘Make the Connection’ in your communities, stateside and abroad. Connect by Life Events Explore life … Continue reading →
I’m very excited to be guest posting over at BLOOM blog, the blog for Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. I am truly honoured by this opportunity. Thank you Louise Kinross, parent, editor and special needs super-star! Please go check them … Continue reading →
Posted in advise, contentment, family dynamics, thinking outside the box
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Tagged BLOOM, Health, Holland Bloorview, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, hospital, kids, Mental retardation, Obesity, Prader-Willi, Prader–Willi syndrome, PWS, rehabilitation, Twitter
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Traveling this Labor Day? Here’s a perspective of an autistic Adult maneuving through the airport. “I was appalled by what the kiosk was directing me to do. How awful to have to steal a fellow passenger’s passport! I clutched onto my passport … Continue reading →
Posted in contextually speaking, perspective, thinking outside the box
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Tagged airport, AS, asperger, Asperger's Syndrome, autism, Autism Asperger Publishing Company, autism spectrum, Automated teller machine, book, Brenda Smith Myle, context, contextually speaking, Credit card, Facebook, flying, Hidden Curriculum, Italy, Judy Endow, Kiosk, Labor Day, Learning the Hidden Curriculum: The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult, Passport, perspective, United States
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Consider MY Perpectives when considering what I “KNOW” – “My entire life has essentially been one big misunderstanding about people. It wasn’t that I disliked people or was scared of them but I never got them. I thought other people … Continue reading →
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Tagged ?Karla's Page, ASD, autism, autism spectrum, context, Coping (psychology), Diagnosis, Disorders, Health, Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental, perspectives, Pinterest
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“It was my last race so I knew it didn’t matter if I collapsed at the bottom of the pool, it’s fine” Jessica-Jane Applegate Jessica-Jane Applegate, a 16-year-old with Asperger’s, wins 200m swimming gold at Paralympics. Britain’s Jessica-Jane Applegate set … Continue reading →
'Enjoying the Hi-5s of Autism' 