Entries by Stephanie

Where do I go from here?

If I buy into the premise that I’m autistic and so are my kids, where the hell do I go from here? I’m a divorced mom of two young kids residing somewhere on the spectrum. I’d like to be a good mom, partner, daughter, friend, coworker, neighbor but just writing this sentence was exhausting.

Does my anxious son need to know geometry?

My ten-year-old son is in fourth grade and came home completely stressed out about math yesterday, literally four days into the school year. It turns out they’re learning geometry, right angles, obtuse angles, etc. It’s not the entire curriculum of high school tenth grade geometry I had when I was in school but it seems […]