Archive - Fidgets and Fries

January 2025

Days with No Words; Episode 1

Jan 31 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

Days with No Words

A series of days in which I connect with my son and the community with no spoken words

Jan 31 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

From the $200 beanie to the bucket hat

Expanding my son’s stylish collection of padded hats

Jan 29 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

Why must we remember their histories...and ours?

A lesson in the connection of struggles.

Jan 16 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

Why is that you, as an SLP, do not know WHY someone would hold the letterboard for a Nonspeaker?

Question that needs answering; in their own time, not mine. I gots work to do.

Jan 5 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

December 2024

"the place in which we find ourselves in is always one of negotiation..." part 3

Dec 22, 2024 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

"the place in which we find ourselves is always one of negotiation..." (part 2)

I closed my last post with an edit—nothing too dramatic, just an omission, a soft reshaping of what I’d already written.

Dec 22, 2024 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

"...the place in which we find ourselves is always one of negotiation" (part 1)

Finding my voice in James Baldwin amid the closure of Autism Speaks Canada

Dec 20, 2024 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

Being Free...but not *that* free.

Welcome to Fidgets and Fries!

Dec 11, 2024 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

TikTok won't hold my name

Not in the way that you ask: so, stop asking.

Dec 4, 2024 •

Tiffany "Tiffy" Hammond

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