Is this week OVER yet?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is this week OVER yet?
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Wed, 07-19-2006 - 11:01pm

It is vacation bible school week. usually it is loads of fun but Mike and his outbursts are MAKING ME CRAZY! I have had enough. Today he was fighting with a girl 1/2 his size over a friggen squirt bottle. I have a group of a great male jr. crew leader (8th grade), Mike(5th grade-10) , and then 4 small girls all 6-7 years going into 2nd or 3rd grade. Seemed to work out well but the girls are beginning to shy away from Mike and who can blame them? A perfectly verbal normal looking kid who acts like a 2 year old and can't share. Who has outbursts at the drop of a hat.

Typically it is 1-2 days of getting used to it and then he does great. This year I thought it was going smoother. No HUGE anxiety to start with and he did well for the first few activities but instead this year it is getting increasingly worse each day.

I am so bummed. I don't want him to ruin the week for those little girls who mostly are fairly shy. I had really gotten them out of their shell the first couple days and they were having fun but I can't keep it there if he keeps yelling or acting like he is 2.

Then yesterday after VBS I got a verbal lashing from the orthodontist because Cait just can't get her teeth clean enough. She has definite motor skills and oral sensitivity issues. She has no cavities and hates to have me do it so I am sorry but it isn't the biggest deal I have to deal with now. But after being "talked too" by one of the station leaders at VBS, being "Talked too" by the ortho, having to tell a whole lot of people about Mike's autism to explain behavior and feeling guilty as heck about those girls I am SOOOOOO ready for autism to go away now.

DH was sweet. He bought me "Animals in translation" yesterday. I told him I can't read about autism right now. I want autism to GO AWAY!

I feel like I have spent so much of my life reading about autism, implementing, trying to teach my kids for friggen nothing. I am beat, I admit it. Meds are looking really good for him. Even the ones that totally dope him up. Hopefully I will be over this tomorrow.

Ya know what REALLY kills me. Sometimes Mike decides to do great. Be just friggen perfect. Always when he is around folks who are used to severely autistic kids after I have given them his whole behavior program and they look at me like I am nuts. He plays with his hands a little and likes to talk off on tangeants and doesn't have great eye contact. So what? It must be ALL my fault.

I told you all about Mike's first experience at music therapy? Then for the last 2 sessions he has been completely perfect. She didn't have to use visuals or anything. I hate being crazy.

Renee

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Registered: 02-20-2001
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 9:32pm
KEVIN SMITH FAN EHRE!!!! My DH and I want to go see clerks 2 so bad!!! but alas no one to babysit :(

 


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