From the monthly archives:

February 2008

Lowe’s First Company to Pull Ads from Big Brother

February 21, 2008

Autism News Direct is reporting that Lowe’s is the first company to pull advertisements from Big Brother in light of Adam Jasinksi’s foot-in-mouth comment calling the autistic children he works with retards. In the entry Lowe’s Pulls Advertisements From Big Brother After Jasinski Comment, a press release from Autism United announces that Lowe’s has pulled [...]

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Following Three-Step Commands – Pfft, No Way

February 21, 2008

My daughter has made tremendous growth since she was diagnosed the day before her third birthday. In the past 18 months or so, she has gone from one word echolalia to 4-5 word spontaneous sentences. She’s gone from no clue about when bodily functions occur to potty-trained during the day with only a few accidents [...]

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Mindlessmommy.com Mentioned on EOnline!

February 19, 2008

I just received my google alert for “mindlessmommy.com” and noticed that my blog entries on Adam Jasinski were referenced in an article published on EOnline. In an article called Another Big Brother Brouhaha by Josh Grossberg, he says: The blog mindlessmommy.com has reported that the Website was only registered last December, just before Jasinski’s stint [...]

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Soeren Palumbo’s Eye Opening Speech On The Word “Retard”

February 18, 2008

The following was posted as a response in one of my blog posts. I felt it was worthy of a front-page appearance so am reposting it, in its entirety, here. Thank you Carol O. for sharing it. “I want to tell you a quick story before I start. I was walking through hallways, not minding [...]

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Adam Jasinski Becoming Quite Popular

February 18, 2008

My two posts on Adam Jasinski have gotten an insane amount of traffic these past three days. My blog has done more traffic in a single day than it has in the past month. A few celebrity gossip blogs have also posted back to my entry describing the hastily thrown together website that was registered [...]

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I Am Officially A Chess Mom

February 16, 2008

I knew I would never be a soccer mom; I tried the tee-ball mom thing for a season and that didn’t work out either. As of today, I am officially a chess mom. At the urging of the coach of the chess club at my son’s school, I took Alexander to his first chess tournament [...]

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Adam Jasinski from Big Brother Sticks His Foot in His Mouth

February 15, 2008

I am a Big Brother fan, I’ve watched every season of it. I actually forgot that it started this week as I’m so used to it being a summer show. Imagine my surprise when I opened up my Google Reader this morning and see Kristina Chew’s post on her Autism Vox blog entitled Kids With [...]

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