growing
all over the place,
all around in the garden, lots of white and green,
and some stuff growing out of my desire to finally create a bag that will fold down into a pouch!
It is now finished, but by that time I was so distracted by the eldest kid being slightly out of control that I never got round to taking a finished shot! Tomorrow maybe : )
We have had a lot of crying and screaming today, I wish I could explain it all away, but sometimes when it doesn’t make any sense to the rest of us, I’m sure it doesn’t make any more sense to him either : (
I’m worried that we are about to enter a slightly more difficult phase with Edward, and I think it is going to be hard on all of us, and for him it will be very tough. One problem is for us is to work out why it is becoming harder, is it just ‘him’ and what Aspergers brings to him, or is it maybe hormonal? He is 10, when do things really start to happen?
The other thing is school, he does seem unhappy, and I am going to have to make an appointment, because I don’t think I can ignore it for any longer. Though saying that, what is going to happen, he can’t go anywhere else, but he needs to have something to look forward to. Maybe we can try and find out if he will get to go to the secondary school of our choice, oh well, tomorrow is another day, and lets see if we can have fewer tears and more smiles : )
31st May 2009 @ 1:05 am
Oh, tiny arrows in the heart as I read your post.
31st May 2009 @ 10:13 am
I feel for you my dear; my brother is Autistic and has just turned 11, my parents are having a pretty difficult time with him too. I hope you can get things sorted out with school for him.
31st May 2009 @ 11:46 am
I can really relate to this. A has diabetes and as he is only 5 is not so good at telling us if his blood sugar is low. One sign is mega strop/tantrum/general grump. But is it his diabetes , is it the fact that he is five or is he just being a miserable so and so!? I can’t ignore the diabetes but also I can’t blame his behaviour all the time as being diabetes related – not easy.
31st May 2009 @ 6:18 pm
Oh rats. I hope it isn’t as bad as you expect and that school have something helpful to suggest. Big hugs and smiles to all of you/ x
23rd June 2009 @ 7:09 am
I too have an Edward with Asperger’s and he was diagnosed at 11 after much worsening behaviour- the doctor told us that the pre-adolescent time was typically a difficult period for ASD kids.I’ve become much better at choosing which battles to fight with him and the other children have kind of just had to live with the unfairness of Edward “getting away” with so much more. It’s been for us the best way to cope as a family even though some friends think that we just aren’t tough enough with him. He’s 15 now and although of course the Asperger’s affects his life still, the aggressively challenging behaviours have pretty much gone over the last couple of years. And we’re still friends.And school-the tales I’ve read about some autistic kids’ experiences at school just make my blood boil.I’ve had to stand up to teachers in a way that I never thought I would have been able to before I had kids.Don’t let those school turkeys get you down .