DivaDavis
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Thanks honey, Nothing more than any parent of a small child I guess 
add in the autism and you get a little more fun...He is being quite a challenge at the moment, shouting at me all day some days and others being good as gold. he decided to draw on our fairly newly papered living room wall today in crayon - managed to get 90% out with magic eraser but was SO cross. (he was also up at 4.30 am today, and 5 am yesterday) He refuses to walk at the minute so OH and I alternate between carrying him and /or dragging/buggying/sliding/scooting, whichever is appropriate and necessary. :-S I know everything he is doing is 'normal' for his age, but the autism kind of magnifies certain parts of his behaviour...so he has phases. (if I think of them as that they are easier to deal with!) which aren't so long in the grand scheme of things, but feel eternal when you're in them! one at the moment is that he doesn't love or like Mummy - perfectly normal I know with my rational head on! but said with such calm that it stings!
At present, his school have said they cannot cope with him (he has just received a proposed statement which we're finalising with school choice) they cannot officially exclude him as it is illegal with his diagnosis but in the mean time they now have him on Monday and Wednesday mornings (so I can still teach) and Thursday afternoons. I now home school Tuesday and Friday. Previously he was doing til 11.30 mon-fri. We have seen a school we like but it is in the next county (12 mins away though!) but we have extra panels to approve before he can go and the next meeting is May22. meantime a space has come up in Sept for a school in our county (20mins away) so we're going to look at it in a couple of weeks.
Looking at it written down it seems mad that I've allowed myself to get overwhelmed (to the extent of blubbing in the loo at one point so he didn't see) but I have and now am paying the price of emotional eating - its the first thing that goes. BUT I ordered my next box to come tomorrow as I'd run out and was just not in the right frame of mind to get more before. I feel I can stick to it as I've paid for it - just need to be bloody minded again and focus. I've also committed to the walk in June and have people sponsoring me already so really do have added incentive.
well there you go. Quite enough I think. ta for listening. ttfn X
add in the autism and you get a little more fun...He is being quite a challenge at the moment, shouting at me all day some days and others being good as gold. he decided to draw on our fairly newly papered living room wall today in crayon - managed to get 90% out with magic eraser but was SO cross. (he was also up at 4.30 am today, and 5 am yesterday) He refuses to walk at the minute so OH and I alternate between carrying him and /or dragging/buggying/sliding/scooting, whichever is appropriate and necessary. :-S I know everything he is doing is 'normal' for his age, but the autism kind of magnifies certain parts of his behaviour...so he has phases. (if I think of them as that they are easier to deal with!) which aren't so long in the grand scheme of things, but feel eternal when you're in them! one at the moment is that he doesn't love or like Mummy - perfectly normal I know with my rational head on! but said with such calm that it stings!At present, his school have said they cannot cope with him (he has just received a proposed statement which we're finalising with school choice) they cannot officially exclude him as it is illegal with his diagnosis but in the mean time they now have him on Monday and Wednesday mornings (so I can still teach) and Thursday afternoons. I now home school Tuesday and Friday. Previously he was doing til 11.30 mon-fri. We have seen a school we like but it is in the next county (12 mins away though!) but we have extra panels to approve before he can go and the next meeting is May22. meantime a space has come up in Sept for a school in our county (20mins away) so we're going to look at it in a couple of weeks.
Looking at it written down it seems mad that I've allowed myself to get overwhelmed (to the extent of blubbing in the loo at one point so he didn't see) but I have and now am paying the price of emotional eating - its the first thing that goes. BUT I ordered my next box to come tomorrow as I'd run out and was just not in the right frame of mind to get more before. I feel I can stick to it as I've paid for it - just need to be bloody minded again and focus. I've also committed to the walk in June and have people sponsoring me already so really do have added incentive.
well there you go. Quite enough I think. ta for listening. ttfn X
