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Entries for June, 2008

Autism Out In Plain Sight

This is just going to end up being a rambling post. Think of it as a little diary entry in my life. Forgive me if it gets a little too rambly.
One of the saddest moments I’ve had as the parent of an autistic child was about a year ago when I sat on [...]

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When the kids babysit themselves

Me and Beagoodmom both had to work at home today and didn’t have a babysitter lined up. So we put the kids in charge of themselves.
They all did a great job. Geetle even made PB&J for herself and Pookie and fed Giggles her lunch.
I managed to snap a few pictures during the day [...]

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Echolalia and Creative Play

I have a very strong love/hate relationship with the new self-checkout lines at stores. I love not waiting in line. I hate the talking that the machines make.
Most people virtually ignore the noises, I’m sure, but not Pookie. They have become very strong echolalic scripts. “Please insert cash to complete transaction” [...]

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Host Switch Completed

If you are reading this message then you are viewing BAGD on a brand new host. Compared to my other sites that I had already moved, this one was a beast but I think it is mostly okay now.
There are about 20 comments and about 20 posts that haven’t made it yet. I [...]

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Moving to new host

I’ve been busy with like a million different and totally unrelated things the last few days.
One of the projects involves moving all of my sites from 2 different hosts to a 3rd host. I don’t really have too many issues with the 1st 2 hosts but neither allows me to use the caching plugin [...]

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