Tag: behaviors
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I Survived March 20th, March 21st, March…
Tony feeds off of the emotions of those around him, especially people he deeply loves. So if a member of the family of his heart is having a bad day or rough moment, he can rapidly careen out of his own emotional equilibrium. Sometimes these situations can cause deviations to the schedule he’s used to.…
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Dealing With the Words That Wound
Some days when Tony and I are tackling our list of stores, he’s having a hard enough time getting through the environment that I end up feeling like a thoroughly punctured tire by the time we are done. And other days, he’s doing absolutely amazing and things are going so well I feel like there’s…
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Never as Easy as a Picture Makes it Seem
A picture hints at a story like a cuttlefish…a moment of time is captured, and it looks a certain way. If the shutter closed one second quicker or is slightly delayed, perhaps a very different story would be implied. We all know pictures can give life to a lie…they can be redrawn so that nothing…
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Photo Field Trip Into Therapy Territory
This week we’re journeying a bit into Tony’s current therapy territory so that each of you can see some of what we spend so much time doing. There are going to be lots of photos with brief explanations about what we are doing in them to provide all of the support we possibly can for…
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Surviving My Post Amazon World
Diagnosis labels shouldn’t matter to people we don’t know…but they do. I wish I was able to walk into a store without having to explain so much as one of my son’s conditions…but I can’t. If you’re a parent of young children, you know…no matter how much you treasure your kiddos, store shopping with them…