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Tag Archives: Empathy
No Common Criminal
I have Google Alerts set for lots of things, one is “autism.” It ends up being too wide a topic; the stories too numerous. One caught my eye, not in a good way, and dovetails into a recent post on … Continue reading
A Different Light
When I write about Nate, and our experiences raising Nate, I’m keenly aware that we don’t have a story that all can share equally. Perhaps among parents with hyperlexic children we resonate most fully, but autism unfolds over a very … Continue reading
Another Hopeful Story
I was going to post some more entries from Nate’s tenth grade journal until I came upon this story in today’s New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/navigating-love-and-autism.html?_r=1&hp Funny, yesterday at Christmas brunch next door, I was asked if I thought Nate would … Continue reading
Talk About Patience!
Parenting an autistic kid is one thing. We have a lot of skin in the game and will go through a lot of grief in the hopes of achieving some greater goal. In an ideal world, all kids would get that … Continue reading
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Birds of a Feather
What is it about autistic kids that they gravitate toward Nate? We’ve seen it time and time again, where a much younger child automatically hones in on Nate. It may be that wherever he goes, Nate plops himself down and … Continue reading
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Tagged Autism, Birds of a Feather, College, Empathy, Hyperlexia, Interaction, Mission of Complex, Obsession, SUNY-Cobleskill
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Postprandial Reflections
We were in Chicago for Thanksgiving, a change of scheduling for us. Usually we head to our former home turf, birthplace of all our sons, for the Christmas – New Year’s break, but Karen wanted to mix it up this … Continue reading
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Tagged Autism, Empathy, Gale Gand, Hyperlexia, Interaction, Mission of Complex, Perspective, Tantrums, The Hearty Boys, toilaroids
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Mr. Social Networking
After Nate sent a message on Facebook, pretending to be me (My Homegrown Hacker), I’ve been pushing him to sit for a few minutes with me and create his own page. One of his professors suggested that over a year ago, … Continue reading
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Tagged College, Empathy, Facebook, Friends, Hyperlexia, Independence, Interaction, Simpsons, SUNY-Cobleskill
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Nate’s Thoughts On My Surgery
Karen brought Nate to Bassett Hospital yesterday, the day after I had multiple surgeries on my spinal cord. You can go to Katz Komments for further details. I was curious to see how Nate would react to me being laid up. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Autism, Cooperstown, Empathy, Hyperlexia, Interaction, Spinal surgery
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Nate and the Big Shakeup
It was last Thursday that the Katz Gang as we’ve known it broke up: Robbie left for Brazil. I’d been watching Nate, wondering how he’d react to such a huge upheaval in our family dynamic. He’d been vocally mixed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjusting, Anxiety, Autism, Brazil, Empathy, Hyperlexia, Interaction
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Upon Further Review
“My sleep was interrupted by an unsettled mass of dreams of frustration. I don’t know how much of that was Nate related; he wasn’t featured in any of them.” I wrote that towards the end of my last post (“Father’s Day with … Continue reading
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