Stories By Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoWhere He Is
We sway in slight staccato, my boy’s arms wrapped tightly around my waist, his left cheek flush with my right. We...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoMake New Friends
This past weekend I had the great fortune to have dinner with a couple of my “autism mommy friends,” an evening...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoRewind
The laugh roars up from his belly, a hearty chuckle we haven’t heard in weeks. My son is sitting on my...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoJust Be
I just returned from a week in paradise. Please don’t hate me. Last week my husband and I spent a week...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoGet Out
Recently I spent twenty-four glorious hours in DC, my former stomping grounds of fifteen years. I ate Indian food, and spent...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoSpinning
My head is spinning. I’d like to tell you it’s for a fun reason, like when I used to be able...
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Brick by the Numbers
/ 10 years agoGrowing Up
This weekend a momentous event occurred, not one with trumpets and flashing lights, but momentous all the same. The truth is,...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoBirthday Boy
ay This week my boy turns thirteen. He will be ushered into his teenaged years, that period which is supposed to...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoPOAC Lakewood BlueClaws Walk-a-thon
(Editor’s Note: POAC is a local organization which does so much for autistic people throughout New Jersey, from trainings of educators...
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Brick Life
/ 10 years agoAn Interview with Parents of Adult Autistic Children
Editor’s note: In honor of Autism Awareness month I interviewed several parents of adult autistic children who are no longer in...