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14 Nov

Oh THAT kind of Friday the 13th…

Posted by awalkabout in Asperger's, autism, life, parenthood, writing. Tagged: Asperger's, limericks, NaNoWriMo, school, suspension, Unitarian, WTF. 3 Comments

Yesterday was a wild day.
I had no clients, no court scheduled, and planned to spend the time working on my crazy November goals. 2,000 words at least. Maybe 3,000. Move the girl right through the funeral home scene where she discovers the truth behind–
Then I got the call about 9 a.m. that the Captain was [...]

30 Sep

Whatever works; or the nature of possessions

Posted by awalkabout in Asperger's, autism, life, parenthood, travel, writing. Tagged: ADD, Asperger's, autism, connection, feng shui, health care, RAD, school, tic. 3 Comments

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. — Seneca
The battle of the wills continues with some improvements.
The Captain has duly been given the prescription flavor of the week for ADD. The doctor didn’t even bother to look at all the other possible diagnoses; [...]

22 Sep

Back off track..as usual

Posted by awalkabout in Asperger's, autism, life, parenthood. Tagged: ADD, Asperger's, autism, boogers, IEP, school, sensory, TSS, Wii. 6 Comments

I spent some time reviewing this blog the other day, and it reminded me that we started out talking about autism. A couple of years ago, the topic was a huge part of our daily lives, with all the therapies and educational issues and…so much. So many questions. So many answers, not many of which [...]

24 Apr

IEPs for U and ME

Posted by awalkabout in Asperger's, autism, life, parenthood. Tagged: autism, crazy people, IEP, school. 7 Comments

Is it spring again already?! Man. Either someone’s speeding up the clock or I’m getting old WAY too fast…
We got the call for Little Miss’s Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting, and had that meeting this past week. No big surprises academically, as we have slowly seen that her fourth-grade work is falling farther and farther [...]

28 Jun

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Posted by awalkabout in autism, life, parenthood. Tagged: Asperger's, cartoons, change, destroy, middle school, school, tv watching. 8 Comments

Friday morning, we set off bright and early to take Ditto Boy to his Y summer day camp, and when we get to the end of the street, we see this:

This is his school. Or…was. He’ll be in fifth grade in the fall. The fifth-grade rooms are that front pile of rubble on the left.
I [...]

5 Jun

Disease, take a number!

Posted by awalkabout in autism, humor, life, parenthood. Tagged: antibiotics, fifth disease, nurse, scarlet fever, school, strep, WebMD. 13 Comments

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about learning new things. So when the school nurse called on Tuesday to scold us for sending Little Miss to school with a rash (her father had put cream on it in the morning, thinking it was just a little heat rash from sleeping in the flannels she won’t [...]

28 May

Customer service? Maybe

Posted by awalkabout in autism, life, parenthood. Tagged: agency, Alex Barton, Asperger's, complaint, early intervention, medication, school, therapy, TSS, wraparound. 2 Comments

There aren’t too many occurrences that leave me speechless. Between a family law practice, seven kids and three husbands, I think I’ve about seen it all. However, tonight I received a response to a letter I wrote about a wraparound agency that was thoroughly incompetent, the first one our kids had. I wrote the [...]

26 May

Will they come for you, too?

Posted by awalkabout in autism, life, parenthood. Tagged: ADHD, AIDS, autistic, Barton, bipolar, child abuse, hyperaction, hyperactivity, IEP, mean girl, school, Survivor, vote off. 9 Comments

I’ve been gone for the holiday and apparently missed the hubbub about Alex Barton.
For anyone who’s not in the loop on this, here you go: Alex Barton’s story. Basically, a kindergarten teacher played Jeff Probst and let her 16 students vote one of their classmates out of their class–after they each got a chance to [...]