Tag: Ben
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White Noise
I detest white noise. There is almost always a fan on somewhere in the house. Everyone was gone for a few hours today and I turned all of them off. I sleep better the more silent the room is. Ben sleeps with a fan. When his door is shut I can barely hear it. Stephanie…
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Together
95% of the time if I ask Ben if he wants to watch a movie he will sing his little “nooo…” I usually leave him alone if he does. Sometimes on the other hand I turn on one of his movies for me with the near certainty that he will watch it with me. He…
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Record Player
Yesterday my mother gifted me a compact record player. I already had a few vinyl records to play on it. I have successfully listened to two of those records and am on my third. Glen Campbell this time. The last two were both Anne Murray. Ben slept on the couch through the first album. Ben…
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Keep the Cat in the House
Ben doesn’t like it when the cats are outside. It’s a cold rainy day to at least today I am inclined to agree with him. The problem is that he doesn’t have a good idea of whether Ether is in or out. He opens the door to check and Ether runs out. Then the cat…
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The Last Drop of Water
About a year ago Ben and I had a fight because he put half a bottle of water into his water bottle because that was all that was left in the gallon jug. He tried to pour the half bottle down the drain and I tried to stop him. So he doesn’t like it when…
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Evening Hymns
I had already listened to my daily hymns when Ben asked for pills and soda simultaneously. As I’ve said here before he cannot have both at the same time. Caffeine and Benadryl tend to cancel each other out in his body. So I made him use expressive language to choose between the two. He wanted…
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Turds
Ben usually gets a bath when he wants one. He sat on the toilet before he got in his bath tonight. A storm rolled in and Stephanie suggested that he sounded distressed because of it even though he was in the bath. I checked and he was sitting sideways in the tub with his legs…
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Noticeably Autistic
I was taking out the garbage and recycling, and Ben was pacing on the porch. A stranger walked by with his dog and he stopped. Ben has been reciting lines from the movie Cars. The gentleman said Ben had mouthed something to him. He then asked if Ben was autistic. I told the guy that…
Latter Day Sinner 