By Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Most children want to interact with the people around them, but not my kid. Ryan was never “typical” before we treated his autism medically. Although Ryan now works as an engineer at a major aerospace company, when we first started down the road to recovery, my…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Although Ryan enjoyed being praised when he did things correctly. He sometimes wanted to get in trouble. It was confusing when Ryan did the wrong thing to get a negative reaction from me, his teachers or his peers. However, over time this peculiar behavior started to…
www.autism-and-treatment.com Marcia Hinds says… Middle school can be the hardest time for many kids. But for kids with autism or the ones who don’t quite fit, it can be horrendous. One of the mistakes I made was to keep Ryan in an awful situation. I should have homeschooled him during those difficult years. I could…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com This is a guest blog Marcia Hinds did for Kelli Wheeler. Kelli is an award winning family columnist and wrote a book called Momservations: The Fine Print of Parenting. You can read even more of her funny mom observations on the blog on her website www.momservations.com Momservation: “When you…
By Frank Hinds – Ryan’s Dad www.autism-and-treatment.com I’ve never been an emotional person. I’m a linear, logical, place-for-everything-and-everything in-its-place kind of guy. That served me well throughout Navy ROTC, flight school, and commercial aviation. To say I was ill-equipped to deal with Ryan’s autism may be the understatement of my life. Dealing with autism is…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Did you ever notice our kids usually talk too loud? The way I taught my son volume control was by saying in a whisper, “Sometimes we talk real soft like this.” Then I would yell in a loud voice, “And sometimes we talk loud like this.”…
by Ryan Hinds www.autism-and-treatment.com (From the book… I Know You’re In There – Winning Our War Against Autism) As you have seen in the previous chapters of her book, my mother is a little stubborn. This is not a criticism, but rather a fact that shouldn’t really surprise anyone who has read this book. I’m not…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Our family’s orientation to the world changed with Ryan’s autism. Our new normal would have been anyone else’s nightmare. We never seemed to realize how bad the situation had become. We were simply too busy trying to survive to do anything else. We already became desensitized…
By Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com Why do our kids sometimes get that rash (tiny looking pimples) on their cheeks, back, and sometimes the back of their arms or legs? Ryan used to have this until after we started the antifungal and antiviral medications to reduce the stress on his immune system.…
by Marcia Hinds – Megan and Ryan’s Mom www.autism-and-treatment.com I used to wonder why my son could go on stage and steal the show and yet couldn’t have a one-on-one conversation. It soon made sense once I realized what he was supposed to say was scripted for him when he was in a play. Here’s…
