OurFirstMarriage #56: Fight! Fight!
Tom doesn’t eat potatoes and Tanel doesn’t eat pork. Tom says “roll it out” but he means “butterfly“. Tanel has a flexible definition of “vegetable”. Tanel embodies the old adage, “She’d loose her head if it weren’t attached.” Tom tries to tell a story which starts a fight. In retrospect, they both had a point [...]
My Dad, the Poet!
Looks like my Dad will be getting another poem published. Now I know where I got my writing genes from! He Danced! The day was soon to come The wedding of an elder son An autistic child doesn’t travel well And in my son’s case it’s a living hell He tarnished my thought of wedding [...]
OurFirstMarriage #13: Interview with Parents of an Autistic Child, Part 4
We conclude our discussion with Tom’s parents about his autistic brother John. All that background noise you hear is John in the next room (it was time to do a couple of things and our Podcasting wasn’t going to slow him down . Discussion includes some of the rewards that have really worked with John, [...]
OurFirstMarriage #12: Jesus, Gandhi, Tom
Special BONUS episode! Tom was in a mood and decided to be a little mean and crass (Tanel made me cut the worst of it ). Kellan decided NOT to go to sleep and was present for the first part of the Podcast. Tanel takes a break to change his diaper and just about breaks [...]
OurFirstMarriage #11: Interview with Parents of an Autistic Child, Part 3
We continue our discussion with Tom’s parents about his autistic brother John. Discussion includes some of the strategies that they’ve used that have worked and some that haven’t with John. They describe how it feels to be autistic. Plus there’s a bunch of audio with John. They’ll be a “bonus” OFM out this Wednesday with [...]
OurFirstMarriage #10: Interview with Parents of an Autistic Child, Part 2
We continue our discussion with Tom’s parents about his autistic brother John. Discussion includes the testing John went through during his diagnosis, some of the relationship help they received, early education choices and dealing with and affecting the education system, TEACCH, and the beginning of the discussion of the strategies that worked with John. More [...]
