Tag: behaviors
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When Life Teaches You To Verify
I was 14 when I was finally given a diagnosis for the birth defect on my right foot, and I have had two corrective surgeries on this foot. Many years ago, in my mid 20’s, I had just started seeing a popular, well-respected podiatrist within the healthcare system I worked for. He had started me…
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A Bit About Matters Old & New
I have always been so very grateful to the therapists and individuals who have chosen to work with our son and our family. So many years ago when Andy and I were driving our rental car towards Disneyland on our honeymoon, as we talked about the family we hoped to start our current circumstances really…
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Some Thoughts About Why
Generally, many of the teens who went to my high school came from families that were far better off financially than mine. At some points, I was saving money given to me at Christmas and for my birthday by my grandmother and my Aunt Cile and Uncle Lawson…and I would use it to buy thrift…
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How The Silence Breeds
She was very sorry, she told me…she had lost her temper and yelled at him. A special ed veteran of many years in a generally well-funded district (and a wonderful teacher many had assured me), his developmental preschool teacher herself wasn’t supplied in my opinion with sufficient aids to meet the level of needs present…
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Needs To Stay
This is not a post designed for artistic eloquence, but rather one where I am speaking as a mother directly from my heart to the Arizona State Division of Developmental Disabilities, Governor Ducey, and all those responsible for funding disabilities services in this state. Whatever else we choose to leave behind from the emergency phase…
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Awareness is Our Every Day
At the beginning of this month, I was opening up our front door around 5pm for the extremely patient Ms. C, who does ABA in the evenings with Tony three days a week. She opened the conversation with comments about Autism Awareness month, and I gave her what I know must have been an incredibly…
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“You Have No Power Over Me”
Originally, I had planned to discuss the sleep-related challenges Tony had during his early years in this week’s post. But honestly, the last two posts- by nature of the circumstances laid bare- starkly avoided most anything approaching cheer and even I need a break from that. Often what we have here is not simply a…
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Medication & Regulation Roller Coaster
I feel like this past month should have come with warning labels. Warning: Medications often have disruptive side effects. Warning: Sometimes this roller coaster flips of the tracks when life changes too quickly. Warning: Once you step on board, not everything that happens on this ride is in your control. So, I’m going to give…
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Tony’s Halloween
Hey guys! Happy (late) Halloween!!! I hope you enjoyed your holiday and weren’t driven insane by trick-or-treaters pestering you for candy. Although there are a few different ways to celebrate Halloween, many people celebrate by: Going trick-or-treating or taking their kids trick-or-treating Going to Halloween parties Watching a Halloween movie Dressing up Handing out candy…
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Every Day is “Groundhog Day”
They say life isn’t like the movies, as if every day’s agenda will be definitively pulled from a drop menu of easily parsed platitudes. Some days can not be bound by such lists and assumptions. Entire years even can be unrestrainedly defiant of them. In this house we have been given a different script to…