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March 2018

March 27, 2018

What Does Being “Unapologetically Muslim” Mean?

What does it mean to be "unapologetically Muslim?" Does it mean to be a loud...

March 15, 2018

Guardianship and the Rights of Adulthood

With less then six months to his 18th birthday, the timetable I had laid out...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Ten

What time? What time was I exactly born, Mamma? It was around 4:30 in the...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Lessons in Autism Land – Less of the Doing, More of the Listening

This is Day 18 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 18, 2017. Dear D,...

April 17, 2017

Dear Parents – Do the Work

This is Day 17 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 17, 2017. Dear Autism...

April 14, 2017

Dear Future Self – What Is Our Family’s Autism Future?

This is Day 14 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 14, 2017. Dear Future...

April 13, 2017

Dads, Sons and the Sweet Secrets that Bind Them

This is Day 13 of the Ali Family #AutismTruths – April 13, 2017. This guest...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

A Trump Presidency – Conversations with our Children

Last night (in my opinion) ended badly. This morning started badly. I had to do...

November 01, 2016

Guest Post: What I Learned When I Took a Stand to Bullying

This is a guest post by Shaheer Mirza, a high school student, about his experience...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

On the Front Lines of Autism, Not Terrorism

Like millions of other Americans (and global citizens), my husband, daughter and I gathered together...

September 16, 2015

#IStandWithAhmed – Parenting Black Kids, Parenting Brown Kids, Parenting Muslim Kids

Counting to ten isn’t going to help today. Maybe counting to ten thousand. I’m not...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Ali Family Autism Truths #25 – The Right of Choice

April 25, 2015, Autism Awareness Month, Autism Truths #25 D brought his iPad to me...

November 2014

November 06, 2014

No Matter How Hard the Living in Autism Land, We All Deserve to Live.

Let’s start by saying this: Human life has value. It has worth and meaning. No...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Fourteen

Usually you have the third row of the car all to yourself, but with your...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Equal is not the Same

Don’t let the dictionary fool you. Equal does not mean same. At least not when...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

The Jenin Autism Project – Community Awareness with an Autism Lecture at Al Quds University

Melissa Diamond and the rest of the team are still in Jenin, in the West...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

What Would He Say?

My friend tagged me in a post on Facebook – a beautiful video made of...

September 2013

September 06, 2013

Embracing (and Including) Autism and Special Needs Families in Muslim Communities

The day after speaking at the 50th annual Islamic Society of North American conference in...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

To Those Who Believe that People with Autism Have No Worth, I Have a Message for You

We live in a pretty quiet neighborhood – it’s your classic big old-style Southern colonial...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Ingratitude in the Face of Gratitude – the Autism Oxymoron

I finally broke at 1:02 a.m. this morning – July 26, on the 17th fast...

July 19, 2013

An Autism Unbound from the Rituals of Ramadan

In no way is he part of any of our Ramadan rituals. He does not...

July 12, 2013

Autism, Childhood and the Perpetual Questions – A Sibling Speaks Up

How do the siblings of individuals with autism cope with the spectrum disorder's grip on...

July 08, 2013

Trying Not to Be That Person

I don’t want to be that person. I really don’t. But I find myself being...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

An Autism Report Card

After years upon years of scrutinizing progress reports and hashing out (and assessing) IEPs (individualized...

June 24, 2013

The 15th of Shabaan – Childhood Memories Versus Parenting Decisions

I have very vivid memories of the things we did on the 15th of Sha’ban growing...

June 14, 2013

Fatherly (Baba-erly) Appreciation

The husband and I celebrated our 14th anniversary last week. We continue to (Alhamdulillah) defy...

May 2013

May 12, 2013

Loved and Loved Back

The whole family came out for Amal’s soccer game on Saturday morning – Lil D,...

May 08, 2013

Not Today

Something is wrong. I can see it; I can feel it in my bones. Lil...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

For the Love of Their Grandchildren

What would a parent do for their child? Anything. How far do we go for...

February 2013

February 14, 2013

To Valentine or Not – Do We Need to Debate This?

The kids came home from school today with the usual Valentine’s paraphernalia. We don’t “do”...