Last week’s column on neurodivergent teens received many responses. Here are three.Q. I’m writing to applaud the 13-year-old who wrote to talk about having an older brother on the spectrum. What a fine young one! I had an older brother with Down Syndrome. He was an amazing person and I miss ...
Followup from last week’s column on dementia: A reader wrote to share how smell connected him to his grandmother who was living with dementia. He said bringing lavender to his visits with her mellowed her and seemed to help with restlessness. Lavender is one of the scents recommended for ...
Q. My gram is changing. I think she has dementia. I talked with my dad, and he says I’m right. They’ve moved her to a nursing home, and I can only see her when someone takes me over to visit because it’s not close enough to walk. I hate this. My parents split when I was little, and my ...
<strong>Note:</strong> <em>I receive so many current questions about friendship, I was curious. I went back into my archives and found this column from 2007. It seems the stress of finding friends is unchanged. I added information about our Teen Center, ...
Q. School is starting. Most years I’m excited. Not this year. All summer I have been best friends with a wonderful person. We met at camp. We go to the same school but hardly ever talked before camp. We’re starting sixth grade. The problem is we are in very different friend groups at ...
Q. I read your column about the college student who decided to leave her mom and my heart hurt for her. I remember. My mother was a toxic person in my life. She told me I was fat in high school when I weighed 90 pounds. She told me I was too stupid to go to college (I went anyway). She ...
