I had technical difficulties with WordPress and had to reinstall and manually re-include my previous posts–including this one.  (Which is why my July 4 post is dated April 4 2009!)  At any rate, the following post was originally published in April 2008–April is Autism Awareness Month!  Hope you enjoy my original post below:

It’s difficult to think back to the pre-diagnosis days.  Have you ever been stopped in mid-conversation to explain a word that you don’t give a second thought to?  I know I have.  It seems there is an entirely different language among the Autism Parents versus the Neurotypical Parents. (Neurotypical being one of those post-diagnosis words!)  Remember when we were all just Parents?   

Here are some other vocabulary words introduced to me through Autism:

  • Stimming
  • Biomedical Intervention
  • Methylation
  • Probiotic
  • Oxylate
  • Casein
  • Gluten
  • Chelation
  • Proprioceptive
  • Hippotherapy
  • Pica
  • Perseverate
  • Echolalia
  • and of course, neurotypical

As far as the abbreviations and acronyms–ABA, RDI, PDD-NOS, SLP, OT, DT, IEP–there are just too many to list!

Happy Autism Awareness Month!

 

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