When People Say Trust Your Doctor, I Say Trust Your Experience
February 26, 2020 I was about 20 when a physician told me my pain was all in my head and that I just needed to reduce stress. I quit my college job and dropped a class . . . then had … Continue reading...
View ArticleProtect the Vulnerable?
May 18, 2020 I will admit that every day of this triggers A lot of emotions. It’s hard to hear how everyone should be “in it together,” or that we have to “protect the vulnerable,” with nobody...
View ArticleCaregiver Reciprocity: How Can We Work Together to Craft Better Lives?
May 20, 2020 I’ve talked about and written about the concept of caregiver fatigue over the years. It’s a thing. I know that I’ve hit that point more than once. I’ve talked about how hard this...
View ArticleTo Mask or Not to Mask: Declaring a Truce
June 29, 2020 Like today’s guest blogger, Dr. Cammy Benton, we at TMR have noticed an increasingly hostile face off between those who deeply believe that face masks are a universal good and those who...
View ArticleAutism and Aggression: Why Loving Parents Sometimes Need to Call 911
You’ve probably seen the story floating around in your newsfeed about the 13-year-old boy with autism who, in the midst of a mental health crisis, was shot as he ran away by the police who had been...
View ArticleTowards a New Conversation
September 17, 2002 When I was studying architecture in the 1980s, the treatises and manifestos of famous architects were required reading. One of the most popular was a collection of essays called...
View ArticleOn Playing Special-Needs Parenting Chess
September 25, 2020 Parenting children with special needs or complex medical needs can be like a chess game. As I put on makeup, preparing to take my son to a new doctor, I remember so many times when I...
View ArticleAutumn’s Challenge: Struggling with Transitions
October 1, 2020 Let’s talk transitions. We are struggling here with transitions at the moment. I have always found the transition from summer to autumn has a melancholic edge. I think this is...
View ArticleVaccines and My Autism
October 5, 2020 James Williams is an autistic self-advocate who travels and speaks all over the country. He was invited to the Vaccine Injury Awareness Walk in Grand Rapids, MI, this week, and this is...
View ArticleDamned If You Do and Damned If You Don’t
December 10, 2021 I haven’t posted anything here for a long time for a number of reasons, just one of them being the hatefulness that fear of COVID as well as fear of COVID vaccines has brought out all...
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