We had a pretty rough night here in The Autism Dad household. It was all things that were emotional in nature and outside of anyone's control. It sorta came to a head at therapy last night. It was a turbulent emotional roller-coaster in the sense that the boys talked about things they didn't want to talk about. When we came home, everyone was emotionally spent and in need of decompression. Elliott was so stressed out about things he was supposed to do today and I finally decided to pull the plug on some of it, simply to provide him some relief. These things are important but so is his sanity and emotional wellbeing. It was a judgment call and I made it. Poor Emmett was so stressed out that he…

Mr. Emmett is not in school today for a number of reasons but the main reason is that his mouth is full of sores. I've been worried that all this new stress in his life was going to cause an increase in fever flares and that appears to be the case. Hopefully, this is going to pass quickly but he's got multiple sores and it's been a little while since that's happened. Weve doubled up on the anti-virals per his doctor's instructions and hopefully things will improve sooner than later. This is an older picture of the sores are very silimar. He's in too much pain to get a picture. I only grab pictures to document the sores so we can show his doctor. They've evolved over the years and…

The boys are off school today for teacher in service day. It's been pretty quiet thus far and I'm continuing to car shop. My stress level is pretty high and I suppose that's to be expected. As I was writing this, my doctor called because my labs came back and they're apparently not good. They said they aren't terrible but my cholesterol is up and my triglycerides are as well. This has me a bit freaked out because I was doing so well. My cholesterol was 150 and everything else was optimal. That was in January. Since then, I lost my grandparents, my marriage ended and I've not been able to maintain the things I was doing to deal with things. This is probably stress related and I just need…

I just wanted to push out a super quick update before going to bed. It's been a long couple of days and they are taking a toll on me. I'm even more stressed out since the the car died because I'm very preoccupied with replacing it and I'm kinda under the gun. I've spent the last 48 hours car shopping and it's incredibly stressful. I'm happy to share that I've secured financing as of noon today. The paperwork went through and I'm able to move forward. That's hugely positive but I'm dealing with one final obstacle and that's the down payment. I've narrowed things down to three or four cars and feel really good about it because I did it on my own. It's frustrating being held up by less…