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Kristi Rieger Campbell's passion is writing and drawing stupid-looking pictures for her blog, Finding Ninee. It began with a memoir about her special-needs son Tucker, abandoned when she read that a publisher would rather shave a cat than read another memoir. Kristi writes for a variety of parenting websites including Huffington Post Parents, has been published in several popular anthologies, received 2014 BlogHer's Voice of the Year People's Choice Award, and was a proud cast member of the DC Listen to Your Mother show. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

I’ve recently been thinking about where I’m going with Finding Ninee.  I mean, I get that I’m writing for me and for Tucker and for the occasional parent who somehow accidentally stumbles her way here looking for commonality and community in an undiagnosed world. I started this blog specifically to connect with parents who are […]

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Enough said. In case you’re wondering, Tucker still hasn’t been able to poop in the potty.  He’s been a total champ at rocking the peepee potty actions, and has made progress with at least attempting to knock off the big job there…but, well, nope.

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Dear fashion people who work on the Dexter set, I love Dexter.  I love Hannah McKay.  I do not, however, love that Hannah McKay appears to have zero fashion sense when it comes to pairing her bras with her tops.  Here’s a hint:  white bras go under white tops.  You can see the black bras […]

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Each day, Tucker’s teacher sends home a written report about how he did in school.  It includes notes about new words, achievements, how much he ate and overall observations from the day.  On Friday, she wrote that Tucker was really excited to spend time with some of the older, more typical* kids but that when […]

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One of the most embarrassing things I ever did was…” Sadly, I really had to think about this because the amount of times I’ve managed to embarrass myself is, well, many. I wondered about sharing the time in seventh grade when I held in a fart for so long that I’d forgotten about it and […]

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