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 […]
The Children I Teach
The Children I Teach
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 […]
Listen to My Voice
Listen to My Voice
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 […]
Not Autistic Enough
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 […]
The Empathy of Autism, Part II
My son’s own words on how he was led to depression, and how he still sees the world as worth while.
In part I, I talked about my 15-year-old Autistic son, Jacob, and our […]
The Empathy of Autism, part I
Navigating Depression with my autistic son, and how people with Autism showed us deep compassion and empathy.
5 Idioms I could Live without
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 […]
The Ice Dance
How Edward Scissorhands tells my story of living with autism.
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 […]
Shit I wish people would stop saying to adults with autism
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 […]
The Tiny Rowboat
Coexisting with my neurological roommate, autism.
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 […]