The Misunderstood Child

  Something that we deal with often with Elijah is that he becomes fixated on one idea at a time, and it can be very difficult to shift his focus on to anything else, including daily tasks that need to be done. Whatever the idea is, it is going to happen. He is going to make sure of that. And, if, it doesn't.... well, God help us all!  This is one of the reasons that the day to day can be so tough. He often comes up with these ideas while he is at school, then expects them to be carried out immediately, completely on his terms. Inflexibility is a huge issue with him. And anyone who regularly deals with a person who is often inflexible, for any reason, knows the exhaustion that comes along with that. So, anyway, I will be driving to pick him up from school, and in my mind, I am thinking of things that will need to be done that evening. After I get him, we need to pick up Owen, we need to head home and start practicing his spelling words, I need to make dinner, I need to make ...

I know it’s been a really long time since I have updated this blog. As with many things, the pandemic hit, and my usual routine was disrupted, so I got out of the habit of writing. I have been into what I consider to be a new normal for awhile, but just never took the time to pick it back up.   Lately the weight of Elijah’s autism feels as though it’s been weighing more heavily on me. I remembered writing about it was helpful. I decided it was time. I don’t want to spend much time recapping the past 10 months, because I want to write about what we are experiencing in the present, but because it has been so long, I need to tie up a few loose ends from where I left off before. So, as of last March, we were still waiting on the school psychological services department to respond to our submission of Elijah’s autism diagnosis, which we had submitted to them in December for 2019 when we received it. Everything shut down in March. We heard absolutely nothing the entire time the schools...