Category: Autism Awareness Series

Part 2: SPI What does it mean to live with autism?  Let me share a little of my experience the past 10 years as the mother of an autistic child. Autism and sensory processing issues (SPI) Autism majorly walks hand in hand with sensory processing issues.  We experience the world through sight, smell, taste, sound,…

Part 1: The hidden pain I never truly thought about autism awareness until I lived through an experience that made it unavoidable. It was during my 10-year-old son’s recent hospital admission for what was a fairly simple procedure. Fairly simple for a neurotypical child. For us, it was anything but simple. Three days of sedation,…