I spent Christmas 2023 at home alone. Susan, Leigh, and Anne are in California, visiting family. My anxiety spikes when I’m alone. I worry about all the things that might go wrong because, too often, things have gone wrong while Susan and I were apart. From flooding basements, kidney stones, and…
Tag: travel
Podcast 0088, Season 5, Episode 19; 07 June 2022 I’m not much for travel, something I’ve written about on the blog and mentioned on the podcast. I dislike airports, struggle on trains, and mass transit systems are sensory nightmares. Travel for conferences and family visits require a lot of mental…
Podcast 045; Season 4, Episode 9; October 27, 2020 Halloween will be spent at home with our daughters. Thanksgiving, too. And Christmas. The holidays join birthdays and anniversaries as events we spend at home. Every year I post to The Autistic Me blog some thoughts on the holidays. I’ve also recorded a couple…
LAX was a particularly difficult place to be during our return from a California trip. We had to spend six hours in LAX, waiting for a flight to San Francisco on our way back to Pittsburgh. Yes, we went Fresno, to Los Angeles, to San Francisco, to Pittsburgh after our…
Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Monterey, Morro Bay, the Central Valley, and a fly over the Golden Gate Bridge at night. That was our ten-day (or eleven-day) vacation trip to California for the summer of 2018. Daddy and two excited little girls met up with friends and family for much of…
Podcast 0013; Season 01, Episode 13; July 20, 2018 This episode of The Autistic Me Podcast reflects on our summer so far, which has featured a lot of travel and enrichment activities for our daughters. In the podcast, I also explore my own prejudices and how we must overcome those through…
Many of the conferences I attend use “presentation stands” with secured computers. These systems are usually Windows PCs with a USB port for transferring files. (Yes, that’s asking for viruses.) The Autism Society of America has said they want presenters to upload files as PowerPoint slides, asking that the provided…
The following is the latest in a sudden “bubble” of stories about autism and access to spaces: churches, schools, and now airplanes. I have kept only the major sections of the story and suggest reading the ABC report. Autistic Boy and Mom Kicked Off PlaneMother Says Flight Crew Should Have…