by Marguerite Elisofon | Nov 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Looking back at Thanksgiving 2015, I had a LOT to be grateful for including 75 comments from readers who (mostly) loved that post and are STILL commenting on it four years later! ...
by Marguerite Elisofon | Nov 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
As an autism momager, I’m always networking on behalf of my actress daughter Samantha and her neurodiverse theater group EPIC Players. In that spirit, I was able to arrange for Samantha, EPIC Players’ Talia Eapen and myself to appear at the Asperger/Autism Network...
by Marguerite Elisofon | Nov 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
As the mother of a 28 year-old daughter on the autism spectrum, I will always be a caretaker. When Samantha was born 7 weeks early, I promised her that if she just kept breathing, I would help with everything else. That was before the diagnosis of autism and...
Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed. She also blogs about parenting young adults and disability related issues in The Never Empty Nest. Her writing has been featured in a variety of publications, including Time and NY Metro Parents magazine, and her family’s story has been featured by the NY Post, Fox News, The Daily Mail, and on Jenny McCarthy’s Dirty Sexy Funny radio show. A Vassar graduate, Marguerite was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives with her husband, Howard, in their mostly-empty nest. She is available to speak about a wide variety of issues relating to twins, parenting, and autism. 