Read more about the article How it all began
Announcements / My thoughts

How it all began

It's been a great day and I'm going to bed tonight, feeling extremely accomplished.. ☺ I have spent a great deal of time, working on something very important to me and I hope you'll find it interesting as well. I have successfully merged over 7,000 posts from Lost and Tired, dating all the way back to January, 2010. That's where it all began. Our complete story is now accessible on this blog. You can click here, to begin reading from the very beginning. In my tenur, I've written and published over 11,000 posts and articles. Putting this together was a monumental undertaking, partly because of the enormous database but also because it was incredibly tedious. I will say that there is a gap between June of 2014 and August of…

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April 30, 2018
Read more about the article Fabulous morning
My thoughts

Fabulous morning

It's been a good morning here in The Autism Dad household. The boys got off to school without an trouble and I even got in a morning walk. It's 35°F but it didn't feel that way at all. The sun is out and it's truly a gorgeous start to the week. I'm hoping this will help to ensure we all get off the right foot this week. I wish we had more mornings like this.. ☺ Oh... On a side note, I've lost another .2 lbs at today's weigh-in. That takes me to a grand total of 13.9 lbs in the last two months. ☺

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April 30, 2018
Read more about the article I’m suddenly not feeling well
Depression Management / My thoughts

I’m suddenly not feeling well

All of a sudden, I've started not feeling well. It's not really anything new and it's probably still the Paxil related stuff because it still is impacting me. On one hand, it sucks to feel like this all the time. On the other hand, things do seem to be getting better, albeit slowly. I simply need some down time to regroup and work through the nausea. I also need to seriously pound some water and make sure I'm properly hydrated. At this point, I'm miserable but I'm so incredibly grateful to have made it this far. I'm working through this and truly hope to keep making progress until I come out the other end of this tunnel. I'm still not anti-medication and I still recognize how important these types of…

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April 29, 2018
Read more about the article It was just the guys today
Family Fun / Gallery / My thoughts

It was just the guys today

Lizze has been out with her Mom all day and that means it's just been us. We spent the afternoon watching the Cavs beat the Pacers, we decided to go to the park. The boys went exploring and Pokémon hunting. Gavin wandered around aimlessly for a little while but had fun. Spring is definitely out in full force here in Ohio. All I need to do now is figure out dinner. I've no idea what we're gonna do for dinner. No one can agree on anything and I'm not in the mood for this much indecision.... 😳 [foogallery id="79481"]

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April 29, 2018
Read more about the article A Gavin Update: It’s fricking exhausting
Autism Parenting Insight / Gavin / My thoughts

A Gavin Update: It’s fricking exhausting

Gavin's been spending more and more time, locked away in his room lately. Some of this time revolves around his tablet and some of it around missions. He's not really talking about his missions a whole lot anymore. The last time he said something about them, was a few days ago and it'd been awhile before that. It's difficult to really grasp exactly what's going on with Gavin because while he talks constantly, it's not usually about anything meaningful. He never talks much about how he feels but instead talks a great deal about the games on his tablet. In fact, I don't think he knows how to talk about anything else. After the race yesterday, my parents wanted to treat everyone to some ice cream. It was the five…

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April 29, 2018
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Autism Parenting Struggles / Elliott / Emmett John / My thoughts

Rough Night

We all had a great day yesterday but it might have been a bit too exciting for Elliott. Elliott and Emmett were both bouncing off the walls last night and we had a terrible time settling them down. Bedtime was quite difficult because they were so overstimulated by all the excitement. It was so bad that Elliott never fell asleep last night. He tried and was on Melatonin but he was too amped up to shutdown. I was up with him until almost 4 AM but finally passed out shortly after. It's going to be a really long day because Elliott will likely have a rough day because he's beyond tired. Thankfully, he's in a decent mood. I suppose it's all about the little things today..

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April 29, 2018