Tiny Grace Notes (Ask an Autistic)

Hi everyone, Just found out they did another issue of Zoom Magazine. It is still awesome. Check it out here. Love, Ib

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2015/04/zoom-magazine-spring-issue-is-here.html

Dear Readers, Today I am delighted to be able to share with you the launch of a new magazine that I believe will change the face of autism magazines. Zoom Autism Magazine Fall 2014 comes out ...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/10/dear-readers-today-i-am-delighted-to-be.html

Dear Readers, This summer I will be able to get back to regularly scheduled blogging. Meanwhile, I have been able only to answer emergency private messages.  Something struck me about a m...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/05/you-are-not-alone.html

Today is World Autism Awareness Day. A couple of days before this day, I was at University of Michigan, giving a talk called Autistic Activism in an Age of the Blues. If you click on the nam...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/today-is-world-autism-awareness-day.html

Today is a day of remembrance, a Candlelight Vigil for Autistic Children Who Lost Their Lives After Wandering . If you click on the link, you can join us in the virtual vigil group on Facebook. ...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/candlelight-vigil-tonight.html

What is Autism? Click here for a short, reliable, definitive description. Nick Walker wrote that, and I'll be glad forever. Thanks, Nick Walker! And thanks to all of you who click on it! ...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/03/what-is-autism.html

Congress is getting ready to reauthorize the Combating Autism Act, and I hope they don't. I'd rather have them write a real thing that does what people meant for this one to do when they accident...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/03/stop-combating-me.html

Checking in... the ABA project was a giant undertaking for someone who has such a hard time writing! Thank you so much for your patience!! Here is a thought that came to me today, this morning,...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-am-mother-part-2.html

There is a person out there whose experience was me bullying him, but it seems like he more feels like my non-autistic friends should have been stopping me and has never come to me about it. I wi...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/03/accidental-bully-i-dont-want-to-be-that.html

Like many commuters, I listen to the radio a lot. Something hit me about the way they introduce new songs. The disc jockeys talk about the fact that a new song is coming up, and if we know the ar...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-being-human.html

This is my entry for the Love Not Fear Flashblog. In case you are clicking from TGN directly, here is a link to the flashblog site itself, where you can read lots of others, and get yourself very...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/love-not-fear.html

I am still working on the stuff about ABA, which takes forever, and it is taking even longer than I meant for it to take, because I am trying to rush myself. Which reminded me, I forgot to link...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-what-bad-idea-rushing-is.html

Hi Ibby!  I am a Parent to a 3 year old Autistic girl. She is receiving OT, Speech, Music therapy and ABA. I have felt it was the ABA where the progress we've seen has been made. However, as so...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2014/01/true-answers-about-aba-part-1.html

The word ‘charity’ comes from the Latin translation (Caritas) of the Biblical Greek word for one of the kinds of love, Agape. This is the kind of love which does not seek anything in return,...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/12/sisters-of-road-what-charity-should-be.html

A mother who has worked with Autism Speaks and considered some of them her friends felt betrayed and sickened by the way they talk about her daughter. They ignored her. She declined to go to the ...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/autism-speaks-these-mothers-want-to-say.html

Today is Autistics Speaking Day, which has a rich and sort of unfortunate history.  I haven't got long to write, but what I have to say is big and cannot be unsaid on this day. The rich unfort...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/autistics-speaking-day-i-speak-to-thank.html

Some of the excellent answers on the last blog post about crossing the street, which I'll repost HERE in case you didn't get a chance to read the comment thread, led me to write this other articl...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/10/workarounds-are-your-friend.html

DEAR IBBY,  SO I HAVE WHAT SHOULD BE A REALLY SIMPLE QUESTION TO ANSWER, AND YET...MAYBE NOT.  IT'S ABOUT CROSSING A BUSY CROSSWALK WITHOUT ADULT ASSISTANCE. MY 12-YEAR-OLD SON JUST STAR...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/09/crossing-street-with-neither-guard-nor.html

Another incredibly self involved person without a moral compass tried killing her kid. This time it didn't work, thank heaven, but members of the media as well as key "parent" bloggers are as usu...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/09/media-throws-parents-under-bus-again.html

Dear Readers, This morning a thing happened in an asynchronous online thread between two of my friends, and it was this: one of them liked my post answering Devoted Phoenix, which you can clic...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/letter-from-devoted-phoenix-part-3.html

Dear Devoted Phoenix, Here I am, back to answer this letter you posted, which I link to here in case anyone missed it. My friends answered in the meantime, and I loved what they had to say.�...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/letter-from-devoted-phoenix-part-2-me.html

Today I got this beautiful letter in the e-mail. The writer offered that I should "feel free to excerpt bits if I decide to respond," but the writing is so full of truth and the clarity of the mu...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/letter-from-devoted-phoenix-part-1.html

6 is my favorite number. Also, there is another meaning. Ground rules alert: this is not a forum to talk about how we feel about war.  This is about the lived lives of people, of the veteran...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/got-your-6.html

Dear Readers: This link will take you to an article I just wrote on our collective blog, We Are Like Your Child, masterminded by my friend the longtime activist Kassiane A. Sibley so that a wid...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/08/we-are-like-your-child-socio-sensory.html

Dear Ibby, First of all, I'd like to say I am a big fan of your work and you first came to my attention when the Thinking Person's Guide to Autism published your essay "A Person is Not a Func...

https://tinygracenotes.blogspot.com/2013/07/dealing-with-family-matters-of-constant.html