Mom in Ohio Wants to Put a Stop to the Bullying of Asperger Son

A mother in Ohio who has a son with Asperger’s Syndrome wants a more proactive approach towards the bullies at his school.  She wants the officials to do more than just talk to the other students. She said in the article that it’s not bad about her son being different. I agree so much.  Being [...]

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Move Over, Snoopy! Here Comes Sally, The Corgi in the School Uniform!

Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Sally, a Corgi, went to school to help Asperger teen Nick wearing his school uniform.  His mother dressed the dog up because Nick had refused to wear his uniform.  Once Nick saw the dog all dressed up, he began to wear his uniform to school. Nick had been refusing to go [...]

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Blocked from Blogging for Being Sick (Again)

I can’t seem to find a regulat time to blog because I have been feeling sick on the weekends.  Usually it’s either a headache and/or my right leg or neck is aching badly.  It’s tough to be a black woman with Asperger’s and try to carve out a normal existance a writer/artist.  Very tough! Sometimes, [...]

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New Page – Artwork

Last week, I added a new page to my Outside In blog called Artwork.  Just click on the tab on top labeled “Artwork.”  Check out what I’ve got there with this:  

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10 Years After I Learned that I Have Asperger’s

It’s amazing that 10 years have gone by since the doctor I was seeing at the time told me that I really have Asperger’s Syndrome, not Intermittent Explosive Disorder.  She had told me a couple of weeks before that I was showing signs of a different disorder than the one I had been previously diagnosed [...]

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George Hodgins Remembered!

Back on March 31 at Boston Common in the evening, I gathered with members of ASAN (Autistic Self Advocacy Network) and Second Thoughts (a group that is against assisted suicide becoming a law in Massachusetts) to honor George Hodgins, an autistic 22 year old that was murdered by his own mother who then shot herself [...]

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Distracted from Doing A Lot of Blogging

Lately, I’ve been distracted from doing a lot of blogging during the last few weeks because of a few factors: feeling sick and depressed, frustrated withwork, and wanting to make changes in my life but can’t seem to make that happen now. I have been feeling under the weather whenever the seasons change during the [...]

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Let’s Call It Autism Acceptance Month

April is usually called Autism Awareness Month, but the general public has heard about autism after all these years.  Even when I first started this blog back in July 2005, there had been Autism Awareness Months in the past.  It was in 2002 during Autism Awareness Month when I learned that I have a form [...]

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Love, Asperger’s Syndrome Style!!!!

I just came across this New York Times article that was printed in late December about two college students who both have Asperger’s Syndrome that happen to be dating each other.  The two are Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith that are featured in the article called Navigating Love and Autism. Jack’s father is John Elder [...]

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Doing Some Me Time (Aspie Style) at the Movies

  I spent last weekend at the Brattle movie theatre checking out their Film Noir weekend. I saw some great movies last Saturday and Sunday.  Two of them I’ve seen before and two movies I’ve never seen before.  Great time! The four movies I saw are classics: Sunset Boulevard and In A Lonely Place on [...]

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