Behavior

How We Finally Got Through a Trip to the Store

May 13, 2011

One of the ongoing problems we’ve had here that we’ve felt most depressed about has been our J-Man’s fear and loathing of most stores and many public places in general. This began about a year ago when he had a full-blown panic attack at Target, a place we’d been to countless times previously. We tried [...]

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Holy Cow, You’re Two!

May 5, 2011

Two years ago on this day, I went into the hospital to be induced with what the nurses were calling a “BIG baby.” When the nurses, who see pregnant women every day, start talking about how big the baby could be, it’s a little startling. Well, the nurses were right, and Dale Jr was a [...]

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Routines, Predictability, and Just Getting to School in the First Place

February 14, 2011

[Thanks to Danette Schott at Help! S-O-S for Parents for including this as part of her February "Best of the Best" feature on school issues as they relate to invisible special needs! Go read all the great posts she's collected this month from some top notch bloggers, and while you're there check out the previous [...]

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Boy vs. Dentist – The Next Chapter

February 1, 2011

Sorry to not post in a long time. We have so many things going on that it’s impossible to know where to start. It’s been very stressful these past three weeks, a few major life changes, the normal chaos, and I’m still training for a marathon in the midst of all that. We’ll go into [...]

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Let Me Out of Here!

January 5, 2011

Yesterday we took the J-man over to do the last part of a research study we’ve been participating in. This was the big part – the in-person evaluation. Sometimes the J-man does OK with formal evaluations, but usually they can be kind of a mess. I think part of the reason is the transitions – [...]

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Visual Math?

August 30, 2010

This one boggled my mind. I’ve always said that one of the most important skills a parent of an autistic child can have is that of pattern recognition. There is usually a reason why your child does something, and I’m becoming more and more convinced that if you study the pattern of what’s going on [...]

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And sometimes it just goes all to crap…

August 10, 2010

“I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought it’d do any good!” – General Berringer, “War Games” Well, as they say, “$h!t happens.” And so it did. Our most recent in the Developmental Achievements We Could Do Without series was the J-Man’s newly-discovered ability to climb out of his crib. We’ve dreaded this to [...]

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Autism Meets the Dentist – To Restrain or Not Restrain

August 5, 2010

Monday was our semi-annual trip to the dentist. I doubt I need to go into much detail as if there’s one universal dread we share as parents – and a mortal fear that most of our children experience a thousand-fold worse – it’s the dentist. No offense to the dentists in the world, but with [...]

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