Archives for "June, 2010"

Posted by Sandy on 29th June 2010
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Getting to Yes With Accommodations

Thinking back over the past year, I’ve had some decent success in getting people to say yes to accommodations for myself and others on the spectrum.  This is a huge improvement over the past when all I got was no, no, and nada.  Most recently there was the judge who went above and beyond accommodating [...]

Posted by Sandy on 25th June 2010
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Helpful Blogs – Are You Reading These?

Are there any non-autism-related blogs that shape the way you think about autism?  I wanted to share some of the blogs I find invaluable: 1. The Happiness Project First there was the blog, now there’s a book.  A few years ago, Gretchen Rubin set out on a project to become happier and blogged about it.  [...]

Posted by Sandy on 16th June 2010
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Doing My Civic Duty

For a little over a week, I more or less dropped off the face of the earth to do my civic duty as a juror on a trial.  When you have a driver’s license or register to vote, it’s not uncommon to get called in for a day of jury duty but most people never [...]

Posted by Sandy on 4th June 2010
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When A Hobby Becomes A Therapy You Can’t Live Without

If you found something that made you feel great and better able to deal with the world, how far would you go to hold on to it? Over the past year or two R has really taken to running, and it wasn’t until he got sidelined by an injury that we realized what it did [...]