Yes I know it does sound a bit odd that a blog run by the father of an autistic 6 year old should want to write about autism blogging. In fact it comes over as pretty self-indulgent.  So please bear with me.

A couple of days ago I asked on the Facebook page which we run on Autism and ASD (https://www.facebook.com/AutismTalk) a question regarding our readers favourite autism blogs.  Do you know what? Only one person had a blog to recommend.  Someone pointed to the brilliant Facebook page  “Autism with a glass of wine“ (https://www.facebook.com/AutismWithAGlassOfWine). If you had not already liked and shared the page we strongly recommend you do so.

Now this really did surprise me.  Because back in 2009 when our son was being diagnosed I read autism related blogs daily.  I discovered from these blogs that progress could be made and that other people were in the same boat as me. This helped me cope with a very stressful process.

As life moved on I started using Facebook more and then started my own  blog so I took my eye off other autism blogs.  So today I’d like to change that and promote a few of the blogs I’ve found useful over the years.

• Suburp Comix run a blog with brilliant graphics about autism. This is some of the best material for educating others (and ourselves) about autism I’ve ever seen.  Point your browser to http://suburpcomix.wordpress.com/category/autism/.
• Danielle runs a great blog called Loorducation (http://loorducation.wordpress.com/). She tells the story of her son’s autism journey.  Well worth a read.  This was the blog that was recommended on our page.
• Dude, I’m An Aspie (http://www.dudeimanaspie.com/) is Matt’s blog about having Asperger’s.  A story told using his great cartoons.  So good he’s turned it into a book.
• Shannon’s autism advocacy blog Squidalicious (http://www.squidalicious.com/) has some really great stuff about autism and iPads.
• World on the Spectrum (http://lkscalesautismblog.wordpress.com/). An autism mother tells it like it is.

Please do visit all of these blogs.   They’re all different and all terrific.

Of course this does not cover all the blogs out there. If you have a blog (or would like to recommend somebody else’s blog) please use the comments box below to add a link and a brief description.

Thanks in advance

PS  We are hoping to make this sort of post a regular feature of the site so keep those autism blogs coming!