My greatest academic regret is not studying history in college, despite being top of my class. I blame it on Nip/Tuck. I was 16 years old and had just a month to choose my A-Levels, similar to American Advanced Placement (AP) courses. I became so fascinated and enamored by the grandeur and drama of the […]
He started the agency so others could have more transparency about the surrogacy process. Mr. Amir and his husband, Mike Gowen, have used surrogates twice and are now beginning their third process with one. They paid about $200,000 total for their first surrogacy in 2017: $35,000 for egg donor screening fees, an egg donation, egg […]
Article content The Manitoba government is trying for a second time to reform education in the province, but this time without planning to eliminate elected school boards. Article content The Progressive Conservative government faced widespread public opposition last year when it announced plans to wipe out all elected English-language school boards, and eventually backed down. […]
My older sister, Marie, wishes that she knew she had ADHD when she was in elementary or middle school. It would have reduced a lot of the confusion, poor self-esteem, and bad mojo that she dragged around like a big, bulky, burdensome sack. If we knew what ADHD really was back in the 1980s, and […]
Starting over: A child who fled Ukraine with her family attends school in Romania. The war in Ukraine has displaced millions of children, including those with autism, who now need services in unfamiliar countries. Two months ago, a two-story peach-colored building with a playground housed a kindergarten for 30 autistic children in Kyiv, Ukraine. But […]
Daughter-in-law is not always a daughter. Short stories on mental health is a story about a daughter-in-law who tries hard for their in-laws but they won’t be satisfied. “Bahu Beti jaisi hothi hai” How many times have we heard this? We hear this more often but there is less reality to this. I am 30-year-old […]
I’m looking for a new job. My last (very successful) freelance contract finished, and a potential mortgage on my first apartment looms. I need to find something full-time and permanent, which means doing what I hate most: job hunting. There are few things on God’s green earth more depressing and degrading than job hunting (except […]
I am a physician who specializes in ADHD and who also happens to have ADHD – and I’m on TikTok. No wait, it gets better. I am on TikTok and I’m over 30 years old. If you haven’t already stopped reading in anger, please let me explain myself. At the start of the pandemic, as […]
Midwives say it’s the best way to do it, and it involves no back pats. Why don’t more people know this?! Everyone seems to have an opinion on the best way to burp a baby. There are even people who say burping is not necessary at all! If you’ve tried a few different ways and […]
We’re honoring Autism Acceptance by publishing April Accommodations—meaning adjustments that other people can do for the autistic people in their lives. (For the flipside, as in things that make life harder for autistics, please see our Autism Checklist of Doom.) Today, we’re hearing from Kate Ryan, who wants people to stop asking her open-ended questions […]
We’ve often seen schools and colleges take a one-fits-all approach to education in the past. Educators focused on finding a single way to teach all students. But now, we all know that this approach doesn’t work anymore. And, in fact, it never worked. There is no secret that all people are different and unique in […]
I was talking to a mom the other day whose 12 year old daughter was diagnosed with ADHD in 2nd grade. We were discussing some related learning challenges, and some new issues showing up now that she is in middle school. Now, this mom has been managing her daughter’s ADHD for many years, so she’s […]
