Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Someone passed along a link stating that girls manifest Asperger’s syndrome differently than boys do. This may in part account for the ten to one ratio of boys to girls who are diagnosed with it. I’m interested because I have…
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For a moment there, I’d forgotten I was dealing with the mental health people. It’s time to call in the boy’s prescription, so I call the number for the office. “Why are you calling here?” the receptionist snaps. “We don’t…
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Dear Everyone in the Mental Health Industry: Do you have any idea how hard it is to get mental health care? I’m not talking about FUNDING it. I’m talking about GETTING it. At all. I’ve had to track down therapy…
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At the dinner table last night, Kiddo#1 abruptly said, “Do I have autism?” Back in April when we got his diagnosis, the neuropsychologist told us not to tell him until we had him in treatment with a trained professional who…
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There is a difference between thinking you are clever and actually being clever. The above is something we tell our children all the time, or at least we say it to one another when they can’t hear or before they’re…
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Kiddo#1 is still enraptured by baseball. Every morning, he grabs the Angeltown paper to look up the time our team plays, and then makes sure to listen to the game on the radio. We have basic-basic cable, so he can’t…
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Kiddo#1: I don’t want to go to Vacation Bible School. Me: Why not? Kiddo#1: I just don’t. Me: {no reply} Kiddo#1: I need a t-shirt of Jonathan Papelbon. Me: Why? Kiddo#1, with a sly grin: That’s what it will take…
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It’s strange, but since getting the diagnosis for Kiddo#1, I feel a lot calmer. Now that we have an actual problem, it’s solvable. When we didn’t, there were just ghosts and shadows and no way to combat them. Imagine if…
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For those playing along at home, Kiddo#1 is ten, and he’s the one who figured out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. Kiddo#1 has always been atypical, and after five therapists, two…
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Kiddo#1 got duped by an urban legend. To whit, that if you find a Tootsie Pop with a star on the wrapper, you can turn it in to get a free box of Tootsie Pops. He found such a wrapper….
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