What You See is Not What I See
What You See is Not What I See
Everywhere around me is music. I call this music Shadow Songs. Just as everything around us casts a shadow, everything I see sings its own unique music. I have […]
What You See is Not What I See
Everywhere around me is music. I call this music Shadow Songs. Just as everything around us casts a shadow, everything I see sings its own unique music. I have […]
When I first announced to a group of conference attendees that I believed that any child can learn the violin, even children with motor planning issues, I was faced with mostly doubt. As I mentioned […]
In an interview with NPR’s A Closer Look, my son, Jacob, and I talk about living with autism. During our interview we talk about many aspects of our lives, but one theme is reoccurring […]
I have given at least 100 presentations on living with autism to crowds of all sizes. My most requested presentation is entitled Let Me Fall. I begin with a preview of a documentary made about […]
In part I, I talked about my 15-year-old Autistic son, Jacob, and our […]
Navigating Depression with my autistic son, and how people with Autism showed us deep compassion and empathy.
The use of American idioms are common among most age groups as a way of explaining ideas in a few words that are assumed to have global meaning. For someone like me, who tends to take […]
There are many films portraying autism in American Cinema. Adam, Snow Cake, Mozart and the Whale, Mercury Rising, but the most well know is Rainman. Each film […]
Over the past decade, I have had the opportunity to speak to many groups of people about living with autism. Many of the events also had me participating […]
While traveling with friends this past week, I got to visit a lakeside park in Toronto. We walked down a gravel path and onto a small beach that was nestled into […]