Blog Profile: Spectrum Siblings

The Soft Blog has started to regularly profile blogs that cover issues related to Autism, Aspergers, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special Needs, Parenting and more. The purpose is twofold--to bring much deserved attention and traffic to blogs that deal with these topics, as well as to create a resource archive on the Soft Blog--for our readers and Google searchers everywhere. If you would like your blog to be profiled, email us at info@softclothing.net.

What is your blog about?
Spectrum Siblings is about my experience growing up with Asperger's, SPD, and most recently Tourette's. It is directed at an audience of parents of children on the spectrum.

How long has your blog been up? My blog has been up since the first of November, 2008, so nearly four months.

What was the inspiration behind starting this blog? I was reading a post on 5 minutes for Special Needs about siblings of kids with autism. And all the moms were discussing what they thought their kids must have thought about their on-the-spectrum siblings, and it was then that I realized there was a gap in the available material. No one else that I knew of at the time was blogging as an autistic individual with a goal of educating parents about their view from their eyes.

What's your favorite part of blogging, or what was one positive experience you have had in conjunction with your blog? My favorite part of blogging is definitely meeting other bloggers, both parents of kids on the spectrum and autistic individuals. I love to hear their advice and be offer to share my personal experience with their difficulties.

List three or four of your favorite or most popular posts (with links).

Brawling Brothers: http://frogger11758.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/brawling-brothers/

This Aspie Speaks: http://frogger11758.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/this-aspie-speaks/

7 Simple Suggestions for Attiring Your Autistic Adolescent: http://frogger11758.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/7-simple-suggestions-for-attiring-your-autistic-adolescent/

Demistifying (neuro)Diversity: http://frogger11758.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/demistifying-neurodiversity/

Anything else you would like to share?
I'm always on the look-out for guest bloggers wanting to share their experience with autism.

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