Tag: autism
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Plushies
My youngest son has 20 or 30 stuffed and plastic animals that he keeps on his bed. Some of them are big and they cover almost the whole bed. He has so many plushies that he can’t sleep properly in the bed now. So… he fell asleep in my bed. I cleared his bed and…
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Autism and the Internet
I have a pet peeve about poorly cropped and framed memes. The above meme took me about ten minutes to clean off the black and white lines all over it. This just looks much better than the original to me. You can still spot the places I’ve touched up if you had the original image,…
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On the floor
Our youngest son is sitting on the kitchen floor and eating his chicken nuggets. This is odd behavior even for him. He usually sits at the table or on the couch. Stephanie asked him why he was sitting on the floor but he didn’t answer her. I asked him if he was a goof. He…
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11%
I am running the battery of my phone to zero. I have been assured that this is good for both the life of the phone and the life of the battery. I however have to be careful how I do this as early in the night as it is. You see, and I’ve probably told…
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Autism can be Violent
Most days I like the idea of having more kids. Today is not one of those days. I used to tell them, “No blood, no bruises? Drive on!” This week there have been blood and bruises. My kids are not inherently violent but they are also not inherently good at regulating themselves so that they…
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Calendars
Tonight I changed my son’s diaper, gave him his pills, turned off his light, and said Goodnight. About ten minutes later he walked into my room holding my Stephanie’s calendar. You probably know it’s turned September half an hour ago. He insists that the calendars be changed before he goes to bed on the eve…
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So much poop…
This morning was poopy, literally. I’ve talked here before about how my youngest son with autism has to turn on every single lightbulb in the house when he wakes up. I’ve also probably mentioned that he is incontinent and wears a diaper everywhere but baths. He had diarrhea when he stomped around the house turning…
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Pull Cord
On Friday in the early morning my youngest son was turning on all the lightbulbs in the house as he always does. He got to the light over the kitchen sink and yanked the cord so hard that it came clean out. That started a meltdown that lasted for 16 hours. With extra medication we…
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A Break From Autism
Autism. I need a break from autism. If my entire nuclear family myself included could just stop being autistic for just one day so that I could see what life would be like that would be great. The universe however does not work that way for me or any of them.
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I Love The Spotlight
I have been performing since I was five years old in the Christmas pageant as the second king from the Orient. My mom made a cassette tape of that performance and kept it safe for years. I got a converter that turns cassette records into MP3s and have a digital copy of it (Below). I…
Latter Day Sinner 