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Help

March 20, 2013 by Joyce S in Advice, Behavior, Parenting, SPD with 15 Comments

As I write this, I realize that this is the place I need to turn to. I can’t talk with family or friends. I’m just starting back up again with our occupational therapist and am waiting for a call back from our psychologist. I need help. I have been wanting to write a post now for several days and it took today to actually motivate me to write. Normally, I have something uplifting to say. Tonight, unfortunately, I don’t have much. All I can think of at this point is HELP. I am at the end of my rope as cliché as it sounds. I have done this too long and can’t do it any more without some kind of relief. I’m praying that your support gives me that. So, what’s up you might ask? Well…

For the last several weeks my Bean has been going down hill, fast. Since summer she was doing amazing. She was sleeping through the night which for a kid who didn’t sleep through the night EVER was a huge accomplishment. She wasn’t seeking, she was behaving and keeping it together at school. I didn’t notice anything until several weeks ago my husband was traveling and I was home with my other two kids (one home from kindergarten sick, other is 3). She was seeking like crazy. Constantly wrestling with her brother, touching and kicking her sister. Biting non-foods, rubbing soap all over her arms and hands. I started back with the sensory diet we were more lax on.

The next week the meltdowns started. We had a sitter for the kids one night. Bean was bothering the sister, not listening to the sitter and drawing on the sitter’s belongings. The sitter put her in her room to calm down (per instruction) = meltdown. When I got home it took me 20 mins to calm her down. Well, there goes having her stay with sitters. A couple days after that fiasco she lost it at my parents and tried to kick my mom. After all of this I brought back the therapists. …continue reading

Tags: behavior, meltdown, Parenting, Sensory Seeker, SPD, Support
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“Well” Visits

March 1, 2013 by Sabrina in Behavior, Doctors, SPD with 8 Comments

Today was the little mister’s yearly well visit with the pediatrician. I hesitate to call it a “well” visit, because it is always a torturous experience. Our doctor has a way of ending most well visits with the phrase “He/She’s Perfect”. With Nicholas, I am pretty sure the only time she said it was the day he was born. Early on, she was worried about his reflux. Turns out he had pyloric stenosis requiring emergency surgery. And allergies. And sensitivities. And he needed the pyloris reopened ten months later. He pretty much didn’t eat for a year. So now that he is three and finally growing, it was a relief to hear her say “He gained two pounds in the last year. That was really good for him.” Why does every compliment end with “for him”? It’s like he’s forever labeled as less than average. I know she means well, and to be perfectly honest, I say “for him” a lot, too. It’s like I want other mom’s to understand how big of an accomplishment it is that he slept in his own bed. Or stayed in a chair without a harness. Or actually tasted the green bean. Or took two steps with his socks off. But just once, I’d like him to be good at something on someone else’s scale instead of his own little “special” measurements. …continue reading

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Absolutely Uncertain

November 28, 2012 in Behavior, SPD with 4 Comments

Meltdown. In the morning. At night. Lately, our life has been filled with these. Also, filling our lives these days. The phrase…”I will never do xyz again!” It sounds extreme. It is. Yet, I have

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One shoe on, One shoe off…

November 14, 2012 in Behavior, Parenting, SPD with 10 Comments

Here’s the anatomy of a moderate Rage at our house. Here’s the reason we usually don’t volunteer for anything, have friends over, or make commitments.Sunday morning. My sweet son rolls out of bed, sweaty, because

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Autism, Meltdowns and Sherlock Holmes

September 8, 2012 in Autism, Behavior, Parenting, SPD with 2 Comments

“When you remove the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes Meltdowns – or perhaps we should call them ‘strongly, vocally, and dramatically expressed opinions’ – have become an all-too-frequent

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Amen

July 12, 2012 in Autism, Behavior, Parenting, Siblings, SPD, Victories with 4 Comments

If you are not familiar, we have attempted church with autism. And though I have never given up hope, I have not been actively pursuing success since. Today I felt hopeful and maybe even a

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Little Zen Master

June 23, 2012 in ADHD, Behavior, Inspiration, Parenting, Seekers, SPD with 8 Comments

Sometimes our friends wonder why we don’t invite them on family outings. I’m often tempted to, and then I remember how some roll their eyes or look disdainfully at my son when he behaves strangely

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After the Storm, there is Calm…

June 14, 2012 in Behavior, Inspiration, Parenting, School, Sensory Diet, Siblings, Social, SPD with 3 Comments

We had a rough weekend. Well, I probably should say A had a rough weekend which in turn means we all do. Ever since A started kindy last year we have worked a lot on

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