Tag: Family

• Grab a Diet Coke: No school days are our problem solving days.

  We get the coffee, donuts, diet coke, happy meal, special toy, and we keep trying to solve problems bite by bite. Cold calling and asking for help (aka advocating) and problem solving on no school days has been our routine since our children’s infancy. These are the hardest days, but also the days where we…

  annechamland

  November 5, 2025

  advocacy, Public Places, Public School, Relationships, Sensory Issues

  advocacy, Autism, Autism Family, Family, health, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, parenting, Public Places, Research

• “Jeanne has autism.” and everything just stopped.

  For you, for your child, for your family. For me, there was a distinct time before and after the phone call hearing Jeanne’s assessment results. “Jeanne has autism.” Shock. But also not shock. Things, struggles, memories, many things just started to click and make sense as the day and days and week and month went…

  annechamland

  January 11, 2023

  Family

  Diagnosis, Family, Mental Health