IEP Torture
We had reasons for homeschooling from the beginning, reasons that had nothing to do with disabilities, especially since we had no reason to expect any disabled children. (Remember how the doctors told...
View ArticleBlind Binarism
This post has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while. It started with a post about disability binarism, the idea that everyone is either completely disabled or completed abled. On its face,...
View ArticleThe Kender Report
Kender has had a busy week. On Monday, he went under anesthesia for an eye exam, which showed nothing new. Dr. Trese said we could start backing off one of the three eye drops Kender takes every day,...
View ArticleBorderline
Everything medical in our lives (except for Kender!) seems to be borderline. The boundary line (ohai Loki!) between “clinical” and “not a problem” is not always a happy place to live. Being on the...
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Fake a Disability
Without AKos, this trip to the zoo would not have happened for Kender. “Hey, did you know that [insert disability here] people get to [insert special access here]? We could do that, too, because the...
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The Kender Report — Surgery Dog Edition
Yesterday afternoon I saw an older man and a little girl walking down the sidewalk next to a busy street. He had a walking stick with him, a little more than waist-high, with a leather loop hanging...
View ArticleThe Kender Project: A Roundtable IEP
My first children were a set of triplets born at 26 weeks gestation, 14 weeks early. We went from happy young couple planning to start a family to being thrown straight into the crazy and confusing...
View ArticleWhat’s It Like?
Another post today about living with disabilities reminded me of a question somebody asked me last night: What’s it like to live with a blind husband and all these blind children? First off, the...
View ArticleI Can’t See
I am autistic. To be more specific, I am a very high functioning autistic, which means that I don’t look autistic. I pass for neurotypical most of the time. The passing makes it hard to cope with,...
View ArticleKender and School
It feels weird to be talking about Kender going to school. We’ve been homeschoolers for so long. It’s all about what’s best for the kids, though. In Kender’s case, right now, a group learning...
View ArticleBrain Surgery
I realized recently that I never posted much here about the biggest little thing in our lives this past year: Brian’s Little Friend, the asshole brain tumor. The acoustic neuroma that appeared out of...
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