One-sided conversations

[jongibbs]

I had a long, and somewhat one-sided, discussion with one of my 16-yr-old autistic daughters yesterday.

Basically, she told me that, while she understood she'd been naughty, the punishment of taking her computer priviliges until after lunch seemed a little excessive and that, if her mother was around (Senior Management is off on a business trip for

Comments

[quaero_verum]

You have infinitely more patience than I - clearly from necessity, no doubt - but I applaud you all the same. ;-)

[msstacy13]

It's an acquired skill, I think,
which grows with experience.

[jongibbs]

'...which grows with experience.'

Ear muffs help :)

[jongibbs]

I'm hoping for a miraculous cure, so I can go and live with them when I'm ninety, and exact my revenge ;)

[dlgarfinkle]

Oy vey. That's tough. I think my weekend was better than yours.

[jongibbs]

It was only half an hour or so all told, otherwise we had a great weekend :)

[karen_w_newton]

ditto the above. it sounds almost like dealing with a toddler who never grows up. that would be really rough because I know that by the time my kids learned to do something for themselves, I was good and ready for them to learn it.

To me it was like going to sleep at night started a process of filling up a well of patience inside me. When I got up in the morning, I had plenty. Then throughout the day I would use it up, and if I had to go to the well too often, it would run dry. Parents of kids with special needs seem to have deeper wells than the rest of us.

[jongibbs]

'Parents of kids with special needs seem to have deeper wells than the rest of us.'

I really believe that Him Upstairs never gives us more than we can handle.

[lyonesse]

aiee, loud!!

today i took one of my friends to court to get an extension on a restraining order. (the previous one expired, and my friend was promptly harassed again.) i no longer remember the weekend at all :/

[msstacy13]

Thank you.
On behalf of everyone who needs help in obtaining restraint,
thank you.

[lyonesse]

*smiles* thanks for saying. it wasn't exactly a pleasure, but i'm glad to have done it.

[jongibbs]

Ouch. I hope the new order does the trick.

[msstacy13]

When my son was young,
I developed a fondness for foam earplugs.
I still like them, although I don't need them nearly as often
now that he's grown and gone.

[jongibbs]

Why would earplugs make him more quiet? Surely a muzzle of some sort would have been more effective ;)