- When meeting a mother and child in the grocery store line, rather than commenting, "Cute baby!" you remark on the child's good "pincer grasp" and "excellent bilateral coordination."
- Once you get home from the grocery store, you realize that while you now have a cabinet full of mac-n-cheese, Rice Krispie treats and a freezer full of chicken nuggets and fish sticks, you have bought no food for yourself or your husband. And rather than go back to the store, you decide to just eat chicken nuggets this week.
- Your idea of "Girl's Night Out" is that trip to the grocery store -- by yourself.
- You have ever warned the exterminator: "Wake the baby up and you are dead to me."
- With one glance at the screen, you know exactly how many minutes into the movie "Cars" you are and exactly how many minutes until the next commercial break, when you'll be required to find the remote and fast-forward.
- You finally found your car keys in the dairy compartment of the fridge.
- You refer to yourself in the third person -- "Mama is going to have the salad bar because salad is healthy" -- when talking to other adults, like waiters and cashiers.
- In all recent family photos, you realize you have "crazy eyes."
- When your starving cat meows, you scream, "Feed yourself, you lazy mooch!"
- Every night, you fall asleep re-reading the same page of the same highly acclaimed literary masterpiece that's been on your bedside table for six months, but you have every word of "Bob the Builder's Easter Adventure" memorized.
- You make up songs about everything you do -- (to the tune of "Old McDonald": "Mama's getting dressed right now ...") and there's no one in the room to hear them.
- You count up your list of "10 Signs" and realize there are actually 12.
The Broadfootsteps of one autistic preschooler, one toddler and the parents who are running to keep up ...
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