Spending meaningful moments with young autistic adults at Stellify has taught me something I didn’t expect when Stellify was first created: progress doesn’t always look like a straight line, or a checklist, or a milestone you can circle on a calendar. Sometimes, progress is just a moment in time, and those moments are EVERYTHING. These…
In this blog post you can see our Self Reflection for the month of March. Every Friday on our Stellify Calendar we focus on Independent Living Skills and Job Training. This can be performed and completed in many different ways, as you may see on our Calendar. On the first friday of every month, we…
It’s a New Year and here we are. 2023 made us proud. Not just because we formed Stellify, but because of you. My highlight from 2023 was the community we saw that was created. You came, you participated, you tried hard, you failed, and you got up again and you supported us. You spread the…
What are Peaks and Pits? Peaks and Pits are when our autistic participants give the Peak (the best part) and Pit (the worst part) of their day, each time we are together. I don’t wish to consider our pits as we will forget them in a week, however, we will remember in a week what…
While Stellify was born on January 1st, 2023, our journey really started 19 years ago. A nice lady’s lips were moving and saying autism. Autism? My beautiful little boy at 17 months has autism. Another lady’s lips told me “It’s kind of like cancer, you just don’t know where the cancer is so it’s hard…