Spirtual
Reality Not As Awful – Always Love is Better Than Hate
Reality Not As Awful - Always Love Is Better Than Hate"Story of My Life" 2023 (age 27)Love has so many friends to support non-speaking autistics like me. Love is the most important interest in my heart.Not most get to have control over my own body. Need so much...
Conversation About Healthy Eagerness Life Same As Others
Jake and I were about to get started with our table work when I noticed he was pacing around the living room (decorated for Christmas) and trying to hide that he was fighting back tears. I asked if he needed five minutes, and he said verbally "five more minutes." Once...
Red Leaf (Jake’s Imagery Writing)
Today we finished a lesson called A Census of Senses about the science of sensations and how there are actually way more than the 5 basic senses. We both found it interesting to think about, and to end our session we went back to the basics by prompting Jake's imagery...
Need to Stay More Reality in the Real Time
(Note from mom: Jake's been struggling this past month, a beloved member of our family who Jake loves dearly has had some major health struggles and is now in hospice care. This may have instigated the emotional setback, but I hope and pray we are on an upswing....
New Talking Friends
Over the weekend my husband and I had some friends over to visit. A couple of these friends had met Jake once, and the other couple were meeting Jake for the first timeNow that I understand Jake's condition (severe autism) being mainly full body apraxia explains so...
An Interesting Conversation About Autism as a Beginning
Our routine when we start working is to read a devotion and Jake comments on the letter board so I can write his comments in the lines below. Here was what we read and what his comment was today:They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged...
Blue (Jake’s Imagery Writing)
Jake whipped through a math session today, so to end our RPM session he chose to do an imagery writing exercise (as taught to us by Katie Masotti). This is where Jake describes something with his five senses. Just for fun, we are exploring the colors in this format,...
Jake Pleads the Cause for “My Autism Friends” (The List)
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:9 Jake and I pondered Proverbs 31:9 and the following was his conclusion of that lesson: Jake Pleads the Cause for His Autism Friends Helpers that have an understanding heart....
Jake Pleads the Cause for “My Autism Friends” (The Full Lesson)
Jake had to choose between math, writing a letter to someone, writing a story entry or having a casual conversation, or a Psalm and Proverbs lesson from the book by Lenae Crandall He chose the Psalms and Proverbs lesson so we started lesson #2 which was on Proverbs...
Yellow (Jake’s imagery Writing)
To end our RPM session today Jake chose to do an imagery writing exercise (as taught to us by Katie Masotti) where Jake describes something with his five senses. Just for fun, we are exploring the colors in this format, and yellow is the 3rd color. (Click on links...