Monthly Archives: April 2021

You know those people who can’t take a compliment? The ones who, when you offer up a complimentary word or phrase to them that you genuinely mean, either deflect it or just simply laugh? Well, sometimes they cry, because they just don’t know how else to respond. If you don’t- you do now.  I’m oneContinue reading “On Compliments and Shifting Perspectives”

All babies cry when they get their first bath. Right? He didn’t. He was born with a head full of hair. I remember the nurse washing his hair after he was born and him gently cooing. “Oh you like this!” she said to him. When we gave him the first bath at home, we hadContinue reading “Invincible and Water”

1 in 54.  More likely in boys.  Celebrated once a year for an entire month dedicated to raising awareness and acceptance.  Autism.  When your son is diagnosed at 2.5, the gap seems small. There’s a few things here and there that you start to notice- it’s why you even had the appointment where he wasContinue reading “April 2nd.”