Weekend Calm

We’ve been blessed with calm breezes and cool nights the past two nights. Last night was the first night since last March that we could sleep with the window open instead of having the air-conditioner running. Autumn is in the air and my spirits are rising. 🙂

Wesley is slowly adjusting to his new school. His hardest challenge is the "getting ready" part. Just knowing he’ll be leaving home gets him worked up into a panic that brings out all of his weird behaviors. Once he’s at school, he does fine. He earned so many "good behavior" tickets this past week that he was able to buy something from the store bin. He brought home two pretty glass beads and a toy car. One of the glass beads is in my purse because "All you have to do, Mommy, is look at it and you won’t miss me so much." He keeps the other one in his pants pocket. It’s sweet how he projects his missing Mommy into Mommy missing him.

…thing is…I do miss him.., but not enough to be upset about it. Afterall, we moms need our "alone" time. 🙂

The weekend has brought back the peace and quiet that summer let us enjoy. Tonight will probably be another story.

It’s funny that Wesley’s most anxious moments seems to be when he has to get ready to go somewhere or when he has too much time to think about it before-hand. I realized today that I’m just like that – to a lesser degree. I’ve always hated getting ready to go anywhere. I enjoy the planning, just not the doing. Weird.

I had a meeting last Friday with Wesley’s two teachers and the IEP director. They are going to re-test him for everything. They have their own doctors and psychologists that will observe and test him as well. I was somewhat disappointed when his teacher said, "I just don’t see an attention deficit. What I see is mostly Autistic behaviors." She’s thinking the likelyhood of him being diagnosed PDD-NOS is very high.

I don’t know how to feel about that. On one hand, if he is diagnosed PDD-NOS, I’ll be vindicated for knowing my son, without the professional credentials, better than the "professionals" who’ve disagreed with me.

But…on the other hand, who wants to be right about something like that?

Time to start the evening routine.

Until next time….

WhisperingWriter

September 9, 2012

I hope the re-testing goes well. They did a lot of tests on Tommy before coming up with his Asperger diagnosis.

Knowing will enable you to have more power at your hands, more services to better help him and peace of mind at finally having the guess work gone. (HUG)

Thanks for stopping by my diary! I’ve bookmarked you as well, thanks for finding me. My oldest son who is 24 has Aspergers. I agree with the above noter…knowledge is power. I slept with the windows open last night too…nothing like letting the old germs out and the new germs in.

Oh, I forgot….thanks for suggesting the CLR, I will definitely try that. I’m about ready to throw my shower head out the window and get a new one, but the same thing will happen again and again. Cross everything that it works! Showers shouldn’t be painful and mine is almost leaving bruises now.

control-H

September 10, 2012

I love it when the summer heat finally breaks. The parenting stuff, yeah, I’m clueless there.

Yes, I did see where 56UP is on Netflix but we do not subscribe to that. I’m trying to wait it out and watch it free online. I may have to open up another can of patience. Thanks for the info!

jjumpingj

Hey, you’ve been inmy thoughts ALOT this week. Lots of prayers will continue for the little dude. And you.

L-OnlyChild-DSP

September 11, 2012

PDD-NOS is a way to put someone into the spectrum, but without any actual diagnosis of more specific causes. They usually dx that when there are enough signs of autism, but not enough to classify it as full blown autism. And, not to worry as, the spectrum is so large that, PDD is on the lower side and usually has less issues, especially behavior. Colin was PDD-NOS for a long time until he finallyhad enough symptoms to fall into the spectrum–but, he is in the lower part of the spectrum so, he gets services and help at school but very little of the other things that go with the way Taylor is..Thank GOD! I don’t think I could do two!

PS: Find your local autism society. They are well versed and can get you a more official diagnosis. To be truthful, most of us have autistic tendencies, but we don’t have autism.

I totally get where you are coming from. However, it is better to know what you are dealing with than to not know at all. You are a good mother.

September 23, 2012

RYN: yes. :-/