I have a good friend who has a 6-year-old with autism. He wrote and asked me if I could find or recommend any blogs, message boards, communities that deal with autism. He is looking for advice and some emotional support from other parents that are raising autistic children.
I could Google all of this for him, but before I did that I thought that I would reach out and see if there are any sites that you have been on/heard about or if there is a good web directory out there that he could go to, it would be appreciated. Just leave a comment or link in the comments section. (As a reminder you have to click on the # symbol at the bottom of this post to read or post a comment in my sidebar and when you do it will not show a comment number. It confuses some people.)
witchypoo says:
She’s on holiday in England right now, but I love http://whittereronautism.com/
She’s funny, articulate, and knows her stuff.
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June 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
hairyshoefairy says:
I read {A} by Ali Edwards. Her son has autism and she has quite a few links in her sidebar about it.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Fluent Brittish says:
Erin from statiamin.com works with Autistic children and she did a whole series on Autism Awareness. She also has some links on her sidebar.
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June 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
sizzle says:
Have her check out: http://www.tothinkistocreate.com/
June 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Gradschool Knitter says:
Check out Ask the Sky. I actually know them (not really well, she can’t come out and knit all that often), and they’ve had it rough over the last couple of years, but they’re hoping with some treatments he might actually get better. He’s sweet and cute and repeats just about everything you say to him - so you definitely have to watch what you say. Also, she’s a great writer and most posts dealing with Z have me laughing and crying all at once.
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June 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Jonathan Merchant says:
Also have them check out beautiful son (just do a search), it’s a pretty emotional documentary on autism done by a couple in hawaii…
in fact i even posted about it…lol
June 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Rhi says:
I was going to recommend Arianne - but Sizzle beat me to it!
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
loralee says:
These are all great links. Thank you so much for all your help. I know that it is appreciated!
June 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Amy J says:
http://growingupgrote.com/
June 19th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Bob & Jacque Peppel says:
You might also pass this along.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm