Category: Ariana’s Posts
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November Gratitude & Some Reading
To Kendra This is a note I am not even sure how to begin to write. I don’t even live with the ghost of spare time unless I am blowing off a bunch of things I need to do (and occasionally I do have to do exactly that or I would completely loose it with…
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When a Woman Goes Vesuvius
I’m going to start with a mash up of me quoting myself from my very first blog post once again quoting myself from an e-mail I sent to some friends about the situation which I am discussing today: “I am not here to judge anyone…” but this is something I felt was important to talk…
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No Such Thing as Medication Salvation
This week, our story drops through the words of two songs of the same title, spliced and stitched together to help me animate the remaining fragments of my scattered thoughts. My moments this past week have been filled and stretched to the point where my own artistry just may not be enough to bring this…
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365 Days a Year of Things to Fear
When I was young, our family often watched reruns of The Twilight Zone. Black and white memories of commonplace scenes twisting through sometimes terrifying deviations floating through the time warp of a 43 year old mind- faces and images frozen in grief or compounding horror. We are taught to think there is a firm line…
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Public Therapy Give & Take Part 2
If you don’t know our family or work with our son, at some points as you’ve read our story you may have asked yourself “how much of this is real?” While it adds another layer to the height of the emotional cliffs I’m ever scaling, logically I understand the need for that kind of skepticism…
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Public Therapy Give & Take Part 1
For many months now we have been leaning into the blustery fury of one regulation storm after another for Tony. A year- an entire year- where we barely had time to gasp furtive lungfuls of calm before the next significant event plunged us into a wave of behavioral turmoil. Many points I had to fight…
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Why Public Therapy?
About a year ago, Whitney and I were working with Tony in one of our local Target stores shortly before she moved out of state. Another customer approached us and asked me some information about working with an Autistic child in public because she was hoping to encourage her partner to undertake similar outings (her…
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Your Kid Finger Paints? Mine Too!
This is a post I wish to write with as much sensitivity as possible. In choosing to touch upon this topic in any manner, I have been basing my decisions on what I can glean from Tony’s public actions and decided that currently he wouldn’t be concerned about us having this conversation. What he would…
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September Gratitude & Some Reading
To Tony My sweet son, we’ve talked about so many experiences on this blog over the past twenty months. You know I can talk a whole lot, and that even still with all I have written we’ve not even come close to outlining our full story. I know you hear it when people see us…