Tag: i love someone with autism

  • Meet Sawyer

    Meet Sawyer

    Since this is a new blog, I thought it would be a great time to reintroduce my “sonshine”, Sawyer! Sawyer is 12 years old and in the 7th grade. Sawyer absolutely loves Roblox, and thinks McDonalds’ chicken nuggets are “bussin’”! Sawyer loves playing basketball with his friends, drawing and creating games on his phone, and…

  • Sunshine

    A couple of weeks ago, we finally got in to see a child psychologist. She prescribed Zoloft for Sawyer, and it is working wonderfully for him!

  • To The Parents Next To Us At Sesame Street Live

    To the parents sitting next to us at Sesame Street Live last night… I hope you will talk to your older girls about why it was rude for them to keep staring and shooting snide looks at my son all night.

  • Autism Is Not A Disease, It’s a Difference

    If you haven’t heard RFK Jr’s disgusting comments about autism spectrum disorder by now, you’ve been living under a rock. I have never gotten political on this blog before, and I never intended to. However, with everything going on in the world right now, I cannot stay silent.

  • Dating As a Single Mom of a Special Needs Child

    Dating As a Single Mom of a Special Needs Child

    Today’s post is going to take a different path than usual. Most of my entries are focused primarily on Sawyer; this one is more focused on me. When I was growing up, I had the dream most little girls do: I wanted to get married and live happily ever after with our beautiful children in…

  • 10 Years

    10 Years

    This past weekend, we celebrated Sawyer’s 10th birthday. We had a small group of mostly family come together to bowl and play games, and then we finished the day with a trip to the movies to see “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (which was super cute!). Sawyer had an awesome day, with lots of fun…

  • A Birthday with Autism

    A Birthday with Autism

    Sawyer’s birthday is coming up; he turns 10 this year and officially enters the double digits! He is super excited, and can’t wait for his birthday party.  Birthday celebrations look a lot different than the typical kids’ birthday party for a lot of autism families. Sawyer has only had two “official” birthday parties in his…

  • World Autism Day

    World Autism Day

    This was originally supposed to be published on April 2, but for some reason my post scheduler didn’t push the post out. :\ April is National Autism Awareness Month, and April 2nd is World Autism Day! There is a saying in the autism community that if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one…

  • Autism Made Me a Better Mom

    Autism Made Me a Better Mom

    Being a mother is a huge blessing, and my children have always been the center of my world; I’m so very proud of all three of them! However, being an autism mom has made me a better mother and person because of what it has taught me, and because of the things I’ve learned as…

  • Am I Autistic?

    Am I Autistic?

    “Am I autistic?” I knew there would be a day when Sawyer would realize he was different than other kids. I have thought many times over the years about how I would explain autism to Sawyer, and what that meant for him, but I never thought it would come so early in his life. I…