My spouse Mike and I may have been autistic together. Perhaps that was why we were drawn to each other during my inaugural college year. I was a bright-eyed seventeen-year-old, and he was an intense and seasoned twenty-something university student, driven to sling code and design all kinds of inventions. His near fall over my […]
I couldn’t sleep. I just stared into the darkness, replaying everything the vet and his assistants had told me. Every now and then, I forgot that my cat was dead. My hand would instinctively reach out to the familiar spot beside me, where Timon always slept. And then the realisation would hit me like a […]
There’s a quiet grief that has settled in my bones over the years — a subtle, enduring, invisible sadness I never expected when I first became a parent. It’s the grief of constantly co-regulating my child, who is autistic with ADHD, and whose big emotions are often beyond their control. Co-regulation means being present, constantly […]
valentine‘s Day Tribute, from the pen of Jason Fisher. Author and political advocate Jason Fisher will release his memoir and testament to true love, To Where You Are, on Valentine’s Day 2022. This moving tribute to his late wife details Fisher‘s story of discovering unconditional love, dealing with grief and trauma after losing his wife […]
At the age of fourteen, Karen Kaizuka’s son suffered a sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) that required emergency surgery. The long journey of raising a child with TBI began when they learned to walk and speak again. In this episode of Brain Injury Today, Karen speaks with Deborah Crawley, Executive Director of BIAWA, about the […]
