I'm standing outside Gavin's bedroom door quietly listening to him have an enormous, violent tantrum.. I was outside with the two E's and Gavin was giving Lizze a hard time.  I brought everyone back into the house and sent them upstairs with a snack so I could help Lizze. Gavin was still being uncooperative and I finally had it and told him that he would not be going anywhere tonight. He needs to learn to treat his mother with respect before he gets to go have fun at Grandma's house. The second he heard that, it was on.  He went from zero to tantrum in nothing flat.  He immediately took to stomping his feet and screaming. When I say stomping his feet I mean shaking the entire house.  We tried…

As a special needs family that relies on medications to help improve ours kids quality of life, we have had mostly a positive experience. We have also had some negative experiences as well. I know that placing your child on medications is never an easy decision and can be downright scary. I thought we could discuss our experience and maybe ask or answer some questions about medicating our children with #Autism. How have you weighed the risks vs the benefits? This was posted via WordPress for Android, courtesy of Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Please forgive any typos. I do know how to spell but auto-correct hate me. Please join our Autism Help Forums Look for "Autism Help" app at the Google Play Store

Emmett has started another fever cycle. I should probably have another name for this because it's less fever and more mouth sores. This explains why he's been so difficult lately. I feel so bad for him and I wish there was something we could do besides advil or Tylenol. He does eat and drink coconut milk products which helps but he's just miserable. He's okay when he's distracted but when he's like this, the combination of him and Elliott is explosive. We most likely have at least a week left to help him through this before the cycle ends. :-( This was posted via WordPress for Android, courtesy of Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Please forgive any typos. I do know how to spell but auto-correct hate me. Please join our…

Emmett is very eager to help with just about everything but washing his hair.  He hates water on his head.  Yesterday he asked if he could help me bring in the trash cans and recycling bins. I was happy to allow him to get some hands on experience.  He did a great job helping and even reminded me to wash my hands when we were done.  Awesome.  :-) This was posted via WordPress for Android, courtesy of Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Please forgive any typos. I do know how to spell but auto-correct hate me. Please join our Autism Help Forums Look for "Autism Help" app at the Google Play Store

I want to apologize because I meant to post this on Wednesday but the whole Bella thing.... Anyway,  I wanted to let you all know what we learned from our trip to the Cleveland Clinic. As you know,  Lizze was there Wednesday for an autonomic evaluation..  Here's the long and short of it.  Basically, she seems to have some autonomic dysfunction but very minimal. We also learned that it's very unlikely that any of her many symptoms are related to autonomic dysfunction at all.  They are however,  very concerned about the medications that her current neurologist has her on.  This of course, has been a major concern of mine for quite some time now.  They feel that until we get Lizze's 8, almost 9 month old migraine under control there's…

Emmett and I took Bella and Maggie for a brief walk this evening.  We haven't done this is a long time because of all the violence spilling into our neighborhood.  However,  it's been pretty quiet lately and we stayed within eyeshot of our house.  Emmett had a great time and so did the dogs.  We just stuck to the alley that goes around our property as their is no traffic. It's literally the road less traveled.  :-) It was a pleasant end to an otherwise busy day. This was posted via WordPress for Android, courtesy of Samsung’s Galaxy S III. Please forgive any typos. I do know how to spell but auto-correct hate me. Please join our Autism Help Forums Look for "Autism Help" app at the Google Play Store

Bella has been the topic of many a blog post for the last 7 or 8 months.  However,  I don't want to leave out the matriarch of the Lost and Tired family.  I have thousands of new readers and so I thought it might be a good time to reintroduce Ms. Maggie. Ms. Maggie is our 4 year old English Staffordshire Bull Terrier.  Emmett was just a few months old when we rescued her from the Greater Akron Humane Society. We weren't really in the market for a dog but Lizze stumbled across her picture online and something just clicked. It was actually one of the more impulsive things we have done.  We called and found out she was still available.  We dropped the kids off with my parents and…