Countering
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Kwombles
- Birthday
- June 22
- Bio
- Instructor of English (and psychology) at Cisco College. Mother to three awesome kids (who have some issues), wife, and all that jazz. Sometimes snarky. Obsessed with knowledge, books, cats, flowers.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Sensory Integration Therapy
Not Scientifically Validated:
Not New News
May 29, 2012 05:22PM - When Tornadoes Appear to Have
Gone Off in Your Children's
Rooms
May 28, 2012 01:06PM - When Their Ten Isn't Our Ten:
Letting Our Children...
May 26, 2012 10:36PM - Lilies and Roses and More
May 24, 2012 10:22PM - Autism, Autism Speaks, and the
True Stakeholders
May 24, 2012 11:12AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Yes, they are. :)
Usually, mine get five to six
feet tall,
but this lone
little…”
May 27, 2012 09:59AM - “Beautiful piece. I'm
glad you came by my blog so
that I could
find my way to
your…”
May 26, 2012 09:28PM - “FusanA, thank you. I
appreciate
it.
Elizabeth, your
story about your brother
Bobby…”
May 26, 2012 09:20PM - “Thank you, Stathi
Stathi. :)”
May 22, 2012 08:23PM - “Thanks, FusanA.
:)”
May 20, 2012 06:29PM
Kwombles's Links
MAY 29, 2012 5:22PM
Sensory Integration Therapy Not Scientifically Validated: Not New News
It seems like there's always something to be mad at or feel
threatened over when it comes to autism-related reporting or
blogging. Sometimes it's reasonable outrage, like an article on
autism that doesn't involve autistic individual perspectives or an
article on autism that goes to Jenny McCarthy for…
MAY 28, 2012 1:06PM
When Tornadoes Appear to Have Gone Off in Your Children's Rooms
I'm sure this is common. Gods, I hope it is: Kids making disaster
areas of their rooms. Every couple months I get the courage to go
back and look at my kids' rooms. I don't know why I bother, but it
eventually starts to occur to me that my husband might…
MAY 26, 2012 10:36PM
When Their Ten Isn't Our Ten: Letting Our Children...
Another school year for the girls finished on Thursday. Where did
it go? It slid by so fast; it feels like they just started! Heck,
close my eyes and it feels like the first day of school two years
ago this August when my childhood classmate drove the bus right
past…
MAY 24, 2012 10:22PM
Lilies and Roses and More
For my garden girlies
for successfully navigating
through another school year.
Go, girlies!
Autism isn't a four letter word in our house. It's not something we
treat with kid gloves, not something we see as a tragedy or, in our
kids' case, in need of a cure. We see it as something to be worked
with and around, but we don't talk much about…
MAY 23, 2012 11:15AM
Kicking and Screaming...That's Just How I Feel: Pink Toenails and Fitting In
I get it--I do--Rosie's tired of school--doesn't want to go, and I
don't blame her. It's over, no teaching is going on, so why make
them go? I know, I know, a lot of the kids love it, the last week
with lots of socializing going on, but what about the…
MAY 22, 2012 5:53PM
Well...sometimes stopping midway is good, too
So I was set to go purple.
But first I had to deal with the
black hair.
So
I used two bleach kits.
Well, this ought to be interesting...
Did
I mention the scalp burning?
After an hour and a half of messing with it,
I
decided this interesting "strawberry blonde"
can
stick around for awhile.
Mayb… Read full post »
MAY 22, 2012 11:33AM
My Day...People, It is MY DAY!
The girls are in their last (abbreviated, the heartless
bastards--the school, not the girls, of course!) week of school. I
am "off"---hahaha, like that's really true--I'm running an online
maymester course (why students want to read a 700 page book in two
weeks and be tested on it, I have no…
MAY 20, 2012 10:48AM
Artichoke Secrets
I have grown artichokes for
several years now but never harvested them.
I love how beautiful they
are.
I love the different shades on one
plant.
MAY 19, 2012 10:17AM
When There Are No Roadmaps
Parenting, no matter that it has been done since the dawn of man,
really doesn't have any roadmaps at the individual level. Yes,
there are more books than any one person could read and as many
opinions as there are assholes, but that really doesn't help you
when it's crunch time…
MAY 16, 2012 6:47AM
The Misconceptions of Differences...or why I should not be allowed near blogger before coffee
As I
woke to a grumbling brain this morning, percolating away at
disparate thoughts and insisting I problem solve, it occurred to me
that change is not something many of us deal with well. We may keep
it internal, box it up, and not let on to the outer world how… Read full post »
MAY 14, 2012 5:11PM
The Freedom to Offend
There are plenty of reasons to avoid the internet--so many unsafe
spots, so many places to be made aware of just how awful or
clueless people can be.
Simon Baron-Cohen started the inevitable comparisons between autism and psychopathy with his Zero Degrees of Empathy book and theory, but at least he ha…
Simon Baron-Cohen started the inevitable comparisons between autism and psychopathy with his Zero Degrees of Empathy book and theory, but at least he ha…
MAY 13, 2012 9:56AM
The People We Used To Be
Joan Didion, on keeping a notebook, writes, "It all comes back.
Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back
in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised
to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to…
MAY 12, 2012 11:37AM
In All Seriousness, Take Two
Yesterday, I owned up to one of my issues.
My
need for symmetry and balance.
My
slightly (ever so) obsessive need to
maintain that symmetry...
Fortunately, my mom and my Danny-boy talked me down
from the need for four more potted peonies and another
gerbera daisy.
Danny-boy did it his normal way of ea… Read full post »
MAY 11, 2012 10:19PM
All Good Things
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.It's been coming, sure and steady. Dad's been promising for the last several years that at any time he could retire--next year was it, for sure. But next year would come and he would stay. He/…
Lucille Ball
MAY 11, 2012 4:20PM
In All Seriousness
For some reason I ordered two sets of two potted silk peonies (they were sold individually). Now, I can see wanting two...but four? Did I see them online and go, "oh, lovely" and order them two separate times? How did I forget I ordered the first set? They came a day/…
MAY 11, 2012 8:34AM
Be Silly
When the world weighs you down, be silly.
When
things are hard, or sad, or just plain a pain-in-the-ass, be
silly.
And
see how many animal prints you can put together in one
outfit...
Wear
silly shoes.
Surround yourself with toys and PLAY with them!
Life
is hard. Loss in inevitable. Obstacles are a consta… Read full post »
MAY 8, 2012 6:17PM
Change: Be One Who Makes It
How do you effect change, change that's big, change that's lasting?
Can you, can one person, have that kind of impact? I remember
arguing adamantly with my grandfather nearly 24 years ago that one
person can change the world. We argued back and forth for a good
long while, my grandfather…
MAY 7, 2012 11:13AM
Take That, Super Moon Biotch!
I know, I have issues. So what's
new about that?
MAY 6, 2012 12:28PM
M-O-O-N spells Freaking Moon
Everywhere on facebook, on yahoo news, on Huff, everyone's talking
about the super moon. Some are even wondering if it will cause
problems. There's even an article on myths about the moon. Everybody's
out taking pictures of the moon and posting it.
Now, readers here know I looooove the moon. Love, lov…
Now, readers here know I looooove the moon. Love, lov…
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