I'm not sure how many of you can appreciate the title but it's a classic Star Trek reference.  :-) I know my kids love the slinky, I mean what kid doesn't?  I myself have grown to hate the slinky and it's propensity for getting tangled. I do everything in my power to avoid the slinky ever visiting my house.  I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to avoid the inevitable backlash that occurs when the slinky meets it's untimely demise. Emmett received a slinky the other day.  In can't remember where he got it from now.  :-( Anyway, I've untangled that darn thing so many times already. I hate slinkies because even if you manage to untangle them, they're never the same.  They end up bent up and out…

One of my readers sent me a message on Google Hangout, asking about what happened at yesterday's wraparound meeting.  I never did get around to that and so here you go. Yesterday's wraparound meeting turned out to be relatively pointless. Almost half the team was unable to attend at the last minute and so nothing really got accomplished.  It wasn't anyone's fault. Sometimes things come up and when you're in a public service profession, things happen  and you have to do your job. With that said, we did bring those that were present, up to date on what was going on and what needed to happen.  We have a tentative meeting scheduled for the week of June 20th but it probably won't because in my opinion, there wasn't really a…

Recently, someone (cough cough MBee cough cough) brought up a really good point. There are things that I don't always share.  I don't not share them because I'm hiding something, they just don't seem that important. Things like, what we eat for dinner or some of the everyday positives. The reason for this is that I simply don't have the time and energy to report every single detail of my life.  It's hard enough to keep up with all that I already share. While much of what I share could be deemed, negative or unpleasant, it's what our life is actually like.  That's not to say that good things don't happen, it's just that they are often drown out by all the unpleasant things that are happening.  I make a…

Yesterday, Emmett really stressing out over his shoes.  It actually me a few minutes to figure out what the problem was.  When I discovered what was going on, I was really taken aback by not only how observant he is but also how sensitive he was about what he observed. Can you identify what's wrong with his shoes, in the picture below? 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

Apparently, we had a really bad storm last night.  I didn't notice it because I listen to a playlist of thunderstorms on Google Music.  Lizze and I enjoy listening to storms and other sounds of nature at night.  Anyway, Lizze has been up since 2am-ish, because the real storm caused her a great deal of fibromyalgia related pain. Keeping her company was the always anxious, always convinced that every strong wind is going to lead to a tornado, Mr. Elliott Richard. The storm scared him so he and Lizze hung out, neither able to fall back asleep. Me on the other hand, I love storms and so I slept right through it .. We I woke up this morning, I realized that we actually got hit pretty good because we…

I owe you all the rest of the story from our appointment with Dr. Patti on Tuesday evening. We know now that Gavin is in fact both psychotic and manic and we began addressing that tonight with a change in medication. What I didn't have time to share with you all yesterday has to do with bladder control issues we've been dealing with.  Our appointment in Cleveland that has been rescheduled for the 26th of June, was to rule out any physiological or structural problems that could be causing this to happen.  However, Dr. Patti reminded me last night that this could very well be a behavioral issue.  It's something commonly seen in kids with Reactive Attachment Disorder and bipolar as well.  I had actually completely forgotten about that.  For…

We just got back from the psychiatrist with Gavin.  The bad news is that Gavin is indeed psychotic.  The bad news continues because he's also manic as well. To be completely honest, this wasn't really unexpected.  We've been suspecting that he was manic for a little while now but we're allowing him time to transition home before pursuing the manic avenue. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with transitioning and has everything to do with his meds needing to be adjusted.  At this point our options are somewhere limited because nothing else has ever worked.  What were doing right now is increasing the Clozapine as that's both safer and faster than increasing the Lithium.  Now we just wait and see.  We do go back in one month and follow up. …