Category: Uncategorized
-
Attending to the Grace
It seems weird to say this, but this Christmas season, I got more of a Christmasy feeling from watching Die Hard than I got from watching A Christmas Story the week before. I make no apology for writing about Christmas on January 5. In Catholic culture, it is technically still…
-
Meltdown Recovery with my old friend, Jane Eyre
On Monday, I had an autistic meltdown, one that required some time to recover from. There were many factors that caused it. I won’t enumerate them all, but it did start when inadvertantly I sent Clark to school sick. I hate it when that happens. I think it has very…
-
Daisy and the Unsolicited Healing Mass
I read book not long ago about a teenage girl named Daisy, a violinist hoping to get into Juilliard and who was born with cerebral palsy. CP varies greatly in how much it affects the person’s mobility, and Daisy could walk, but all the same, her CP was otherwise detectable in the way she moved,…
-
Hard Work Pays Off
Last summer, I sent a message to a young man I found online who I thought might make a good beta reader for my manuscript. Mason (that’s his name) was paralysed in a downhill skiing accident a handful of years ago, and now he’s an online content creator who posts videos about the…
-
A Hidden Soul
“Jesus loves a hidden soul. A hidden flower is the most fragrant.” St. Faustina Kowalska I haven’t read more than a paragraph or two of St. Faustina’s diary, but this quotation was highlighted on the Hallow app lately, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Interesting note: St. Faustina…
-
Happy Feast of St. Nicholas!
One of the stereotypes that prevented me from thinking I could be autistic is the one that says that autistic people are always very literal in their thinking. And I am, a little bit. When I hear someone say, “She wears her heart on her sleeve,” I’m picturing an arm.…
-
Apples & Honey
When I was a kid, our family had an annual tradition of driving up north in the fall to buy apples and honey. My dad grew up in a small town not far from the Georgian Bay. We have relatives up there. Driving up to visit them happened multiple times…
-
Little Laney the Ballerina, and now Leah, too
You might be autistic if you were drawn to activities like dance or gymnastics as a child. This is a non-specific trait, of course. Plenty of people enjoy dance and/or gymnastics without being autistic. But if you find the full-body movement that comes naturally with these activities soothing, that can count…
-
Sense of humour: not optional
As an autistic person and a mother of three autistic kids, looking forward to back-to-school is something I have yet to experience. Ever since Clark started junior Kindergarten in fall 2017 (I was very pregnant with Lance, who was born in early October that same year)), it’s been stressful in…
Helena Mary Cole 