https://youtu.be/6-pnJtuESzA It's been a while since I last wrote for AutismChallenges.com, and a WHOLE LOT has happened in the past couple of years. Since we all spend so much time on video and watching video now-a-days, I thought trying out some video entries would be worth it. Not done with writing by any means, but…
AutismChallenges returns…..with a slightly new purpose.
So I stopped writing this blog in 2017. I was reaching a difficult part of my life, the realization that certain dreams were not going to come true, and that caring for Dayna was not going to get easier. In fact, it was getting harder, much harder. So now in January of 2019 what has…
April is Autism Awareness month – By Cindy Peters (re-posted from Facebook)
What you see below was written by Cindy Peters of Cary, NC as a post on Facebook. Even though I stopped writing for the blog I felt it was important to share and my blog site gives me a place to post it outside of traditional social media. Please take the time to read it…
The end of the blog….for now
Just over three years ago I started to write this blog. For the past three months though, I have struggled to write again. Recently, I've quietly decided to put an end to AutismChallenges.com. As I started to write this last entry, I looked back at my second post....A Week in the Life of Autism. It…
The Unbearable Decision
Times get rough with Dayna, and in this age of social media we tend to post the frustrations of those times on sites like Facebook. Welcome to venting in the new digital world. When we do so, we often get questions about housing for Dayna as she continues to get older. When will we decide…
We went to a prom!
So Dayna went to her prom last night, and had a blast. It wasn't her first prom, they held one last year when we lived in Maryland that she really enjoyed and as a result she was looking forward to this one as well. But this was different than last year. In Maryland it was…
Autism is winning
I usually write my blog posts with greater thought. Tonight, in the middle of the night, with Dayna yelling, I decided I wanted to dump everything on my mind at once. Autism is winning. Winning the race, or maybe the fight, I don't know which it is. Either way I'm realizing that 'slow and steady…
Autism and the effects on the siblings
We are often asked about how our other children handle day to day life with Dayna's Autism. Dayna is our oldest at 16 (almost 17), her sister Kiley is 14 and her brother Sean is 7. Neither Kiley or Sean personally have any effects of Autism, but they do deal with the challenges nonetheless. Here…
The sleep saga….is it really a saga or just our way of life?
It's 2:44am….yep, Dayna has found a way to help me write my blog again. Unfortunately, it’s because once again she is up in the middle of the night. Now to be fair, her overall sleep is much better than it used to be. As you know from the past, 11 p.m.-5 a.m. was considered a…
At 4am, so much has changed, yet so much is the same….our new world.
Well, its my first update since Dayna came back from Murdoch, an inpatient behavioral medical facility here in North Carolina. She spent 6 weeks there to help her deal with the fact that she would not sleep at night and would fight us going to school. It was a hard 6 weeks for her and…
