One Canadian, One with Autism, and one me.

For some reason I am fascinated with which celebrities have kids with autism. I guess it is sort of the same as my obsession with who is Canadian. My husband is Canadian and so I collect this usless data and whenever Neil Young comes on the radio I say "He's Canadian." Now when watching Office Space and Lundberg comes on camera I say "His daughter has autism."

I am adding more and more to the list, especially when April (Autism Awareness Month)comes around. I just learned about Gary Cole's (Lundberg) daughter as well as Didi Conn this week.
Maybe it just shows what I mean by Spectrum Schmectrum I think about them both in the same way, my husband=Canadian my son= Autism. Both describe something about them but I don't define either of them with that one label.

More celebrities with kids on the autism spectrum:
Jenny McCarthy
Stephen Stills
Dan Marino
Holly Robinson Peete
Aidan Quinn
Joe Mantegna
Ed Asner
Robert Smigel
William Christopher
John Schneider
Toni Braxton

I will update as I come upon more names. The list of Canadians is much longer...too long to post.

April is Autism Awareness Month

Weird that my son with autism was born in April or maybe weird that they chose his birth month to have Autism Awareness month, either way it is strange.
I wanted to write about autism from a different perspective, well from my own perspective I guess. I don't relate to the crusading moms who are all over the airwaves and writing to the school boards and contesting their kids IEPs. Not that they are bad, I'm just not like that. That fact used to make me feel bad, like if I don't spend all my time and money on therapy and treatments that I am a failure as a mom of a son on the spectrum. But after some therapy of my own I think I am doing pretty good.
I call this spectrum schmectrum because most of the time I am not thinking "my kid has autism" just going through life the best I can.