Month: May 2011

  • Clues in Ty’s World

    Continuing from the previous post… Ty struggles to read non verbal signals.? If Ty is talking excessively and you are bored out of your gourde ? he won?t notice.? If you attempt to ignore him to send the ?I am done? signal, he won?t register it.? (I actually watched Darin attempt to do that once […]

  • Grady {Phoenix Newborn Photographer}

    Now if that don’t make you smile…. Love that lion outfit and clearly – so did Grady.? King of the hill. This little guy was a trooper – happy and sleepy and oh so deliciously moldable.? 🙂 Isn’t he a happy one? Such a sweet little guy.? He gave me my baby fix while we […]

  • The Climate in Ty’s World

    My mother has always teased that my brother Daniel is an emotional thermometer.? He will walk into a room and take the emotional temperature of everyone it.? Unlike Ty, Daniel pays close attention to the emotions at play in a room.   Picking up on non verbal social clues is a very important life skill.? […]

  • The Many Buttons in Ty’s World

    For reasons that I cannot explain, Obsessive Compulsive Behavior is often a co-morbid condition alongside spectrum issues (or maybe it is a condition on the spectrum ? not sure how that is defined).? Ty does not have an extreme case of OCD.? The predominant areas we see it exercised are associated to his areas of […]

  • Oh But His World Is Funny

    Ty:? Knock knock.   Me:? Who?s there?   Ty:? Milk.   Me:? Milk who?   Ty:? Milk and a hair brush!??? HHHHHAAAAAA HAAAAAAA!   And he doubles over laughing never noticing that I have a bewildered expression upon my face.? Ty has no concept of punch lines but he loves what he interprets as a […]