Elliott and Emmett have been living in their superhero costumes today. Emmett is in the Spiderman costume and Elliott is sporting a Captain America  costume. They are posing for a few, goofy, candid shots.  Do you have any little superheros in your life? Please share. This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me

This is an official announcement.  As a member of the Autism community and father to 3 boys on the Autism Spectrum, I try to keep my finger on the pulse of the community as a whole and work to make things better for as many people as I can.  The goal of Lost and Tired is to help improve the lives of those touched by Autism and their families, while at the same time helping to educate those in general public. One of the things that has been very close to my heart, especially with the recent, tragic news that another small child with Autism drown, after wandering away, is helping to rapidly recover the missing child before tragedy strikes.  My family has been very lucky in the sense that…

I apologize for the delayed update but today has been pretty crazy. As you likely are aware of, someone has reported us to Child Protective Services.  They claim that we don't take our kids to the doctors and follow up with their medical care.  Ironic right? That's kinda how I feel about it.  I spoke with the investigator (social worker) this morning after we returned from the Farmers market. We decided that she would come by after school and conduct her interviews and collect whatever information she needed.  I wanted to get this over and done with because the stress of this has Lizze sick and honestly, I'm not too far behind.  When the too social workers arrived, the boys were upstairs playing and we had our grownup talk before…

In about 2 hours, Child Protective Services will be coming to our house and interviewing my family.  I spoke with the social worker this morning and made the necessary arrangements.  I have to pick the boys up early from school so we can get this done.  She promised to interview the boys in our presence and as a group. The was comforting to hear.  I know that we have nothing to hide and so we should have nothing to fear.  However, it doesn't feel like that. It feels like we are at risk of losing our kids, all because some sad person got up on Friday morning and decide that our lives weren't challenging enough.  They decided to file a report with Child Protective Services and claim that we don't…

Emmett built something today out of Legos and I promised I would put it up on the site and share it with all of you.  This creation is a hover car and he's quite proud of it.  I believe that he's building a set and this is just part of it.  When he finishes that up, I'll post some picks of that as well.  :-) Enjoy. This site is managed almost exclusively via WordPress for Android. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me

As I lead my family into the first full week of June, we are facing many unknowns. We have this whole child protective services thing weighing pretty heavy. This should be very easy to address because it's as ridiculous as it is ironic. That said, we take this very, very seriously and there is a huge unknown aspect to this. Something else I'm worried about is how Gavin is going to react to the increased dosage of IVIG in a few days. If you recall, last month I was really worried because this really took a toll on him. I've also got to schedule Gavin at the Cole Eye Center for a follow up appointment.  This is really important because his eye doctor can detect neurological problems via an eye…