"Same Child, Different Day" Site Closing: Where to go now

Because of the useful and relevant information it provides, "Same Child, Different Day" will stay up and available. However, I will no longer be monitoring this site. Our life has taken a different direction, and I've developed two new blogs to reflect that.

"Read All You Want" is my writing blog, and I will be using it as a writing portfolio as well. It has autism anecdotes, but now only as they pertain to my writing. Please click here to see what it has to offer.

The second blog, "Our Journey, Our Way," touches on how autism affects us as we travel through life: to restaurants, bowling alleys, arcades, beaches, parks, theme parks and any other travel experience.  Please check it out, and feel free to share and comment.

In fact, please share this post, and bring your and our friends to another look at life with autism spectrum disorders.

Thanks for your loyal support, and I look forward to traveling with you and writing for you on my other blogs.

Same Child, Different Day: Several Years Louder

I have been threatening for years to write a sequel to the booklet SCDD.  Well, time's up!  I've started writing the full-length follow-up book, aptly titled Same Child, Different Day: Several Years Louder.  When I wrote the original, I was looking for a way to cope with Nolan's diagnosis and make sense of the new world to which we were introduced.

"Several Years Louder" came about because so much has changed within our family, the local, state-wide and national autism community, our understanding of autism and our child himself.  Also, our youngest daughter was later diagnosed and I began working directly with those living with autism.  It's been an interesting trip, to say the least.

If you've spent any time here reading what I have to say, you know that, apart from this blog, I've been writing since long before personal computers were a Thing.  With Life being the fickle creature she is, though, I've never really been able to make writing work for me, let alone being able to work for writing.  Unable to commit the time necessary to making a living from writing, I've jumped from one false start to another, never really completing what I'd like to, and looking like a fickle creature myself.

I decided recently that, if I'm to make writing work, I'll have to do it full time.  "But," said the tiny but loud logical side of my brain, "if you do this full time, without immediate fiduciary recompense, however will you eat?"  "Good point," I said to Logic Brain.  So, I decided to try something I'd heard of, but knew little about.

I launched a Kickstarter campaign, with the hopes that, when fully funded, I'll be able to commit all of my time and resources to nothing but "Several Years Louder."  If the backers come through, and I have no doubt that they will, I'll be able to invest all of my efforts toward making the book happen.  That said, I'd appreciate it if you would help me make this our book.

Please visit the link below.  Check out all the pages, the rewards, the links within the project and my high quality, professionally made video (no professionally made).  Then if you feel good about the project, please share share share it with others who could benefit from all the book will have to offer.

I appreciate your interest and involvement.  Here's to a successful campaign.

All the best,
Jon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/660152560/debut-book-same-child-different-day-several-years