By now, I would imagine that we have all heard about the person first language. Basically, the premise of this is that you put the person before the disorder. As I understand it, addressing someone in the person first language would go something like this.  This is my son Johnny, he has Autism. The point is that some people feel that if you were to say something like, This is my son Johnny  and he's autistic, or This is my Autistic son Johnny, that you are identifying them by the disorder and not who they are as a person. To me, I've always felt this was really silly and honestly, kinda petty. If you speak to an adult with Autism, more often than not they prefer to be called Autistic.…

I spoke with Gavin this afternoon and he informed me that he had a drop in his heart rate today...but it went back to normal....well normal for him anyway. My Mom called to let me know that Gavin has been telling her that he is falling asleep in class again.  Apparently, he feel asleep for an hour yesterday and a few minutes today. Gavin assumed that it was his medications that were the cause but that's not the case. The medications that did change are not responsible for this. Gavin told me,  "I was so tired in art class that I couldn't pick my head up off my desk". That's a problem because it's less about being tired and a whole lot more about being in another autonomic crisis. While…

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While we were on the way home from picking Elliott up at school, we had an incident. We pulled up next to a school bus carrying kids from Elliott's school. Next thing I know Elliott's really upset because one of the kids on the bus took a wad of chewed up gum out of their mouth and pelted it at our van.  It hit near Elliott's window and got him really upset. We called the school and spoke with the office about the incident because if this kid were to do this to the wrong person, it could be trouble, especially where we live. The school asked for a discription of the child and this is where I was floored. Elliott provided a very, very detailed description of this kid…

Elliott hasn't been eating at school, I think I mentioned that before. Anyway, Elliott didn't eat lunch again today, so I've pulled the plug on school lunches for now.  The school has been great with trying to work with him but it's just not working for him.  He keeps saying that things don't taste right and so we won't eat it.  Dr.  Patti thinks this is about him grasping for control over his life. All we can do is support him right now.  I dragged my sick self out to Giant Eagle tonight in order to get Elliott some things for his lunch. Hopefully, he will have a better day and actually eat lunch.  This site is managed via WordPress for Android, courtesy of the @SamsungMobileUS Galaxy Note 2 by…