I'm glad everything is getting better now. You've always had a lot on your plate, and i don't know if you could handle NOT having a lot of stuff to do at one time.
I don't know how I am going to feel when Teddy goes off to school the first day.
I wasn't aware of you and Matt having problems, but I'm glad you have started working through them. Marriage is a lot of give and take, but when it is good it is good.
Haha. That is so true! If I didn't have a running to do list in my head; I'd likely get bored as hell really fast. I've had people ask me how I manage to do it all, and I really can't answer. I just see that x,y, and z all need to be done this week (or sometimes that day) so I sit down and make my list of what needs to be done, the order it needs to be done in, and how it needs to happen. My brain works really weird like that.
I didn't really talk to very many people about our problems just because I wanted to be able to do what I needed to do and not have noise and influences from the outside coming in & messing with what needed to happen and how we needed to work on our problems.
People say that he needs to learn to talk (which he does do) and that teaching him to sign will only discourage his talking and he won't fit in with the other kids. Well I have news for them. He's autistic! He's not gonna fit in with other kids if he can recite an Oxford dictionary! This is from people who don't have an autistic child (or in a few cases, children at all), so they don't really understand the disability and how it affects him vs. how it may affect another child. Often, people will compare him to another "autistic" child and as they're telling me about the other kid, I realize that the child they're talking about actually has Asperger's Syndrome- which is *not* autism.
I hope so too! It's really nice to have us back to being 'us' again, like when we first got married. :)
Exactly! Some kid (most often the popular ones) sees another kid that's different in some way or doesn't have what that kid has, and they pick on him for it. I tell them that when they're the parents of an autistic child then I might take what they have to say a bit more seriously, but until then I have 4 children to raise. Sometimes it's that those people think they could do a better job than you. I've actually had people say to me; "Jenny McCarthy cured her son's autism. Just do what she did and you can fix Darren!" I think it's that response that I hate the most because it implies that I'm not doing everything in my power to make my son's life as good as possible.
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I don't know how I am going to feel when Teddy goes off to school the first day.
I wasn't aware of you and Matt having problems, but I'm glad you have started working through them. Marriage is a lot of give and take, but when it is good it is good.
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I didn't really talk to very many people about our problems just because I wanted to be able to do what I needed to do and not have noise and influences from the outside coming in & messing with what needed to happen and how we needed to work on our problems.
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I hope so too! It's really nice to have us back to being 'us' again, like when we first got married. :)
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