This post began as a response to a comment I received today but took on a life of its own. I'm not upset or offended by the comment but I did want to address a few things and hopefully provide a little more insight into things on my end. The comment in question raised concerns about my financial situation and made reference to our gas being turned off for months. The situation with losing our house was mentioned as well as how unfair it is for the kids to live in a house without hot water.  I know this person and they truly mean well, so I'm not upset and they did raise some valid points that perhaps others were wondering as well.  Let me address these things one at…

The boys and I are just now getting home from a day of running errands.  The day began with an interview related to state benefits for the boys. It went really well but Imhave some hard thinking I need to do because proceeding down this road will create secondary issues and I just don't know what to do.m The real adventure began when I needed to get my drivers license renewed and all three boys were with me. Elliott and Emmett played in the play area but Gavin had another bladder crisis and had to go back to the car because he was getting really frustrated with himself..         Elliott and Emmett did so well. I'm so proud of them and grateful for their cooperation.. When we were some,…

This time tomorrow, the boys will be knee deep in their first day of school. I'm absolutely praying that things go well for them.  The boys are excited about this return to school but nervous as well.  I'm feeling optimistic that things will be okay with this rather drastic change to their schedules.  Today will be spent getting everything in order.  School clothes will be readied and supplies will be packed. I'm really excited and nervous myself but again, this is a very positive change for all of  us.    

It's been a rough night but everyone is finally asleep. Elliott is the only one not struggling when it comes to sleeping right now.  Since they had a therapy session with their Mom last Tuesday, Emmett hasn't been able to fall asleep without being glued to me. This is a few steps backwards because for the last couple of months, he's been falling asleep in his bed but still climbing into bed with me at some point after I go to bed.  The session was largely a positive thing but I think it stirred some shit up and this is the fallout from that.     Gavin couldn't fall asleep for hours again tonight.  He kept feeling like he had to go potty. He went back and forth to the bathroom…

It's been awhile since I've taken a stand on something like this because normally, I just don't have the energy. This time however, I'll make an exception because this drives me crazy.  I mean this with the utmost love and respect but the Autism community is  fickle and petty.  Of course this doesn't apply to everyone but in general, it's a pretty fair observation.  We spend so much time splitting hairs, arguing over semantics and judging others for their personal thoughts and opinions. This really needs to stop because all it does is drive a wedge between people who should be working together.  Here are a few example of terminology that ruffles people's feathers: With Autism vs Has Autism Autism vs Autistic Obsession vs Hobby I've been called out many…

I took a peak at the server logs today. I haven't looked at them yet for The Autism Dad blog. Frankly, the only numbers I've been focusing on is the ad revenue, which is what keeps my sites online and helps me support my family. When I checked the server logs, this is what I found.  The numbers are broken up between viewed and not viewed traffic. Viewed is when someone actually viewed something from my blog and not viewed are things like bots or crawlers.     There have been over 1,000,000 viewable hits to the site for the month of August and over 220,000 page views. There have been just under 50,000 visits for the month with roughly 9,200 unique visitors. 😊 I was worried that making the move from…