My Mindless Mommy Blog is one year old! I’ve had the domain for longer than that but on 3/10/07 I created my Mutterings of a Mindless Mommy blog dedicated to my life as the mom of two children on the autism spectrum. At the time I started the blog, I only knew I was the mom of one on the spectrum. Since then I’ve been promoted to mom of two great spectrum kiddos!
Here’s a look back at some of my favorite and more popular posts. I’m going to start with March and April of 2007 as I have many favorites and I don’t want to spam them all here in one post.
An Introduction - My first blog entry!
The Dreaded Autism Tantrum - Blogged from our hotel in San Diego after a fun day at Sea World.
Having Autism vs. Being Autistic - Two completely different statements and one may be offensive to a certain part of the autism community and the other offensive to another part of the autism community. The power of words, truly amazing.
Autism and Terbutaline- I get visitors to this post every day from Google searches on the topic. Not many comments but by far one of my most popular posts.
“She Should be Potty Trained” - Not my shining glory moment of educating others about autism, but some days you just have to say what is on your mind.
A Neat Little Package Called Asperger’s Syndrome - This post was made shortly after my son’s diagnosis.
My son had a follow-up visit with his opthamologist on Friday. The outcome - an eye patch. His vision is still getting worse and since he’s ambylopic we’re afraid that his brain is going to shut off his right eye. Even with the glasses, he’s still over-compensating and using his left eye more. Now he gets to wear an eye patch for three hours a day, every day, and we go back to the doc in two months. I think this will be good for Alexander because he’s been slacking a bit on wearing his glasses (he’ll take them off for something and forget to put them on, etc). This way he knows that this is serious business but he doesn’t have to worry about wearing the patch outside of the house.
I cannot get him to say “arrr” for me though, I’ll do it in my best pirate voice and he just giggles but refuses to say it. I asked him if I should buy a parrot for his shoulder to which he enthusiastically responded “yes!” I forget that rhetorical questions don’t usually work with six year-olds or Aspies. hehe The office gave us a package of four sample patches and recommended a company based out of Tucson, Arizona - Ortopad USA. I ordered the patches yesterday and selected priority UPS next day shipping (as we don’t want to run out). A representative from the company called me back and said UPS doesn’t deliver on Saturday and since I’m also in Arizona the standard priority mail shipping would likely get here by Monday. Guess what arrived on my doorstep today? Yup, 100 fancy boy-themed eyepatches.
As I’ve mentioned (repeatedly, I’m sure) Alexander is tactile defensive. Thankfully the patches only irritate him a little bit. Hopefully when we go back in two months his right eye will have made improvements and we can stop. Until then, I have a happy little Aspergic pirate.
