Keira Runs

[...] basis with them in the car? Why do autistic kids want to run from us, and why do they think they need to run into the water? None of these [...]

[...] I just read an article about a dry run O’hare did for autistic kids flying. As our readers/ friends, and family know, we have logged many miles traveling with [...]

[...] New research from Oregon State University shows that autistic kids are lazy. I wish Keira would be lazy for just one day. I say this in jest, as from the moment  [...]

Keira’s grandpa’s sick. He has an LVAD, and has just been told that he needs the one he has, replaced. The stress, we (the family) are experiencin [...]

Right now I’m sitting in a hospital waiting room while Keira’s grandpa gets his LVAD replaced. This is a very risky surgery and it’s been really [...]

[...] too, and cracked up on my own after he was gone, as I know he wasn’t trying to be funny. I love ASD kids. [...]

[...] requires routine. I quickly determined that this lady had never met Keira. A routine for ASD kids is not a treatment and shouldn’t be considered part of an ABA approach. I would even go [...]

Keira’s school is frustrating. Recently while picking her up one of her teachers repeatedly asked me what I do with Keira, as if when she comes home [...]

Sacrifice, is the word that comes to mind, first, when I think of school. I think about how much Our family has sacrificed to get Kiera into the schoo [...]

[...] based on observation of Keira, and other ASD kids we have gotten to know. Of course, every ASD child is extremely different, so to generalize, as I just have is quite presumptuous and lacks merit. [...]

[...] article as all articles like this one focused on why the woman was driven to kill her ASD child. I must write it, I don’t give a shit about the bitch who gave birth to this poor child.  [...]

[...] . I don’t just say this because she is my child. She is smiling and laughing 85% of her waking hours. Upon waking, she smiles and greets us with a hello (which is new). She is constantly [...]

[...] the moment she wakes up, until she goes to bed, Keira runs. Well, she runs 50% of her waking hours. She is jumping 20%, and walking 27%. We recently put a pedometer on her, and it [...]

This morning I was woken up very early by Keira and tried to watch the documentary Blackfish for the second time. I was quickly reminded of why I turn [...]

[...] can make Keira. Sometimes they laugh so hard together they are gasping for breath. Oh yah Keira calls the color purple, “happy”. I’m not sure why, cause she knows at least ten colors [...]

[...] Keira, most of the time. She is also 4, but a little older then Keira. I know that she finds Keira frustrating at times, as Keira will just walk up and take things. Also, we dote over every little [...]

[...] laughing and smiling, singing songs, and in a state of absolute bliss. Keira is happy, Keira inspires happiness with visual contagiousness. One look at her and you can’t help but smile. I [...]