Rt 22 through Union, for a hair-raising, Dirty Harry-style drive. Top it off by taking the Parkway up to Rt 21, and then Rt 80 east.

Fun, fun, fun.

Imagine watching someone handcuffed getting beat to death and your reaction is to downvote this post

Or, more often, were just labeled as problem children.

Sounds great!

Trout fish in the river, followed by a milkshake. Some of the best memories of my childhood. Now I get to share it with my kids, and my nieces and nephews. Life in Hunterdon is better than most places on the planet.

Big dudes, yeah they really make you know when they find a dead squirrel or something on your roof.

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What’s the crime like for those neighborhoods though? I was looking it up in google maps street view and most of the cars look like pre-2005 models

I went with one that apparently uses the Motel 6 lot even though it’s called by a different name. Hopefully it’ll be fine

You may also want to ask in r/BergenCounty.

A lot of the hotels around Newark offer parking and shuttle included. It’s in a safe lot and pretty decent prices. Used it a few times and felt confident

Ah, yeah, you’re right - Carton is in AH, Kane is in Ocean. We probably hit both that day.

DM? :)

Definitely turkey vultures. You can tell by the white on the underside of the wings. We also have black vultures.

I taught in NJ for years. We had a family move from overseas to enroll their autistic child in school here. NJ has a very high bar for educating special needs children.

It makes you wonder how many kids on the spectrum were simply not mainstreamed and received help and services, or just shipped off to institutions.

Love Gronsky’s! Can never go wrong with the ice cream either

Sunrise Mountain Road, Sandyston to Montague

Old Mine Road / River Road, exit 1 off Route 80 all the way to Port Jervis

Seven Bridges Road, Little Egg Harbor

Henry Hudson Drive, Alpine to Edgewater

Any of the Pine Barrens sand roads from Mount Misery to Whitesbog

and mostly, just, Hunterdon County. Like, almost all of it. Drive your way through Lambertville, Frenchtown, Milford, Califon, High Bridge, Asbury— it’s all just so beautiful.

Carton brewing?

Yeah, probably Atlantic Highlands because we likely started at Kane Brewing, lol.

ETA: Carton. Duh.

The pancake is bigger than my head!

Yes. Atlantic highlands route 36 to 71 to 35 to Island Beach State Park. Nice spring/fall ride. Takes 3 or 4 times as long in the summer.

I never got properly diagnosed not until 14 months ago in 2021 & it was a latent diagnosis. Growing up I kinda knew I was different from the other kids & in school as well . It was chalked up to me being an old soul in a kid’s body. I only wish that I was diagnosed sooner rather than later because then I could have utilized the services .

During our kid-free days, I asked to just take a leisurely ride south for my birthday (October). I forget if we started in Atlantic Highlands or Asbury Park, but we hugged the coast and went as far as we could until Rt 35 ended.

I would never do that in the summer, but during the fall it was very nice.

I'd be interested in reading the whole study. There are a few things I can think of that could contribute to it.

First, kids who have other types of issues are more likely to be screened for autism because they are already on the radar. Next, have the numbers of children on the spectrum grown or is this a reflection of the broadening of the spectrum and more children being identified?

5 fold seems like a lot but I think, I graduated from school in the 80s and I didn't know anyone in "regular" school who was autistic. Fast forward 25 years and I had a nephew who was identified when he was 3 and began receiving services. He struggled in school but just graduated from college and is now a teacher. If they had not caught it early, he might never have gotten where he is today.

When he was growing up, there were always a few kids, girls and boys, who were identified as being somewhere on the spectrum.