Aidan Mauricio Villasenor-Walker: When I was 22 and pregnant with you, I shaved my legs for the first time ever, in an attempt to look pretty. It didn’t work. ! When I was 23, I remember rocking and channeling you to come into this physical world. I saw colors and lights, your birth was long, intense …
I did a video the other day about where I’ve been–this is the accompanying post. Divorcing Autism was ignored by me for a long time and for that I apologize. In truth, I dropped many things for a while and am barely re-teaching myself how to cook and do basic things I forgot during the … Continue reading
Aidan’s new house finally closed, check out his grand tour of his kitchen below, while he was there cleaning and furnishing it with his dad. I’m way too lazy to try to film another one, so this Facebook Live one will have to be the Divorcing Autism update. School starts in a week, I’m busy with … Continue reading
School is about to start again, and because I’m not taking clients or doing sped individual advocacy work right now, I didn’t realize that LAUSD begins on August 16th for my kid. As in BEFORE Labor Day. Oops! So we are in a flurry of getting him ready. He’s lost a lot of weight from exercise … Continue reading
Aidan has his own apartment and is moving out! Just kidding! If you’re a parent of a kid with disabilities, you know that the vast majority of adults with disabilities live in poverty or financial dependence. It’s a fact, and a scary one at that. The statistics are miserable for adults with disabilities, who still fight … Continue reading
I turned 39 today!!!!!! I wasn’t going to say my age online, but I don’t dye my grey, yet I’m secretly hoping for a Cruella Deville side of white at the side of my head. I could rock this: Kind of hard when you only have 10 grey hairs, but they’re coming fast, with a … Continue reading
This week was supposed to be where I show you a day in my crazy life, but you know what they say about the best-laid plans. Things can and will get moved around–but you’re all parents of kids with disabilities! You know how to be flexible by now, right? Last week I went to Austin, that place … Continue reading
As a parent advocate, I get a lot of requests for exactly HOW I determine what to work on for my child, how do I figure out what is more important, than something else, and so on. I can only say that this changes from year to year for us. Because MY son has had … Continue reading
I’m not a big Xmas or any-holiday kind of person, and Kirk Cameron didn’t make me get any more warm and fuzzy about it this year. BUT! My kid is. The difficult part of raising a child with a disability and teaching mainstream stuff and what is going on in the world around them, is … Continue reading
Earlier this week–the boy won’t go to bed till all his routines for that day are written in his day planner, so he can cross them out before bedtime. He brings the planner to you to fill out then tells you “I’ll be there in 4 minutes”, meaning YOU will be there in 4 minutes, … Continue reading
Divorcing Autism 