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Parenting Resources to Orbit Autism


To the Mom who Just Heard the Word "Autism"
Hearing the word autism thrown into a conversation describing your child, was not on your bingo card this year. It wasn't ever on mine either. You just sat through the most unusual 30 minute evaluation of your life, where they scored your child on all the things they couldn't do. You're feeling so foreign in your own body, and you can feel a subtle rage building. You will stay polite and respectful, but you will silently burn. Remember this energy, it's going to be importan

Ariel Ford
Apr 265 min read
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Hello Moms, let me introduce myself...
Hello Moms,
Welcome to my page. I want to introduce myself and give you a little background of our story!

Ariel Ford
Apr 125 min read
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Special Needs Mom Life: Redefining Self Care
It has been a good many years since self care has been on my radar. I have been a mom now for 5+ years. And shit, that was really hard. Harder than any book ever told me it would be, and harder than society even begins to portray it. My body, and my mind, went through some very questionable things in the last 5 years. I feel like moms reading this will understand what I am talking about. The physical changes, yes can be jarring. But it is really the mental ones that take the

Ariel Ford
Jun 46 min read
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Why as Autism Parents, We should "Presume Competence"
This is a tough topic. It seems simple enough, but believe it or not, I struggle with this daily. It might be the phase we are in, as my kids are still so young (under 5), or just that the evaluations of all the things my kids can't do is still so fresh in my brain. Autism is essentially diagnosed by all the things your kids are incapable of. Check marks of yes's or no's, and delay scores ranging from mild to severe. Both of my boys have landed every evaluation in "Severe De

Ariel Ford
May 106 min read
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A Brutal Uncomfortable Truth
We don't want to compare.
But our brains just do so naturally.
You'd think it would get easier with time.
But it doesn't

Ariel Ford
May 31 min read
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7 Tech Tools That Made My Life Easier as an Autism Mom (and Might Help You Too)
Listen, us Autism Moms are really struggling. Any little bit of help that we can get, we will take. Promise to make our day easier? SOLD

Ariel Ford
Apr 193 min read
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Early Signs of Autism: What Parents Should Know
First of all, let me say... it's okay if you didn't see them . It's also okay if you saw them but chose to wait and see. And, its perfectly normal if there really wasn't many, if any, signs at all in the beginning. All kids develop on their own time, milestone apps aside, even neurotypical kids don't always fit the mold. I have two autistic boys, and the signs of Autism were vividly different for each. I want to be the voice of reason, for parents in the early stages of deve

Ariel Ford
Apr 166 min read
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5 Things I Wish I Bought Sooner, as an Autism Mom
5 Things I wish I bought sooner, as an Autism Mom.
You are going to want to see these!

Ariel Ford
Apr 123 min read
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Things I had to Unlearn, after my kids Diagnosis (Autism)
There are 4 things I had to unlearn pretty quickly once my boys were both diagnosed with Autism. All four were extremely hard to come to terms with, and it was not easy to reflect on these habits, let alone change them. As a mom, you would do anything to support your kids, but Autism & Neurodivergence was uncharted territory for my 29 years of life before kids. 1. My Style of Parenting I had big plans for my parenting style. I had a vision of how cool I would be as a mom, l

Ariel Ford
Apr 126 min read
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