Thursday, February 26, 2004
Things are really happening fast this week and I'm a little intimidated by it all. Martie has talked me into writing an essay for a book coming out about families living with autism. And Meret, one of the ladies at our church, is putting together an informational panel discussion for the Religious Education department on autism and Asperger's syndrome. She is getting Barbara Wirth, who is a pretty big local name in the autism community, and a neruopsycholoist to be on the panel then she wants me to be on it as a parent representative.
A year ago I had no idea what Asperger's
was and the only picture I had of autism was kids sitting on the floor rocking and wacking themselves in the head. I know I'm only being asked to input my perspective as a parent of a kid living with Asperger's but some days I don't even feel like I have a handle on
that. Asperger's is such an eclectic disorder, no two cases are the same. I question whether what I have to say would be valuable to anyone. Aside from "get an internet connection cause you will have to do lots of research to keep up with their subject of fixation" what would I have of value to contribute to something like this? *sigh* I just don't know.
Martie has said it is time to get down to brass tacks with Ian's behavior at Circle Time at school. He apparently just won't sit still and he doesn't listen when Karen tells him to sit. She has to take him out in the hall to wind him down. I'm not even remotely sure how to process this out with him. I'm not there to see what happens and if I ask him, "What would help you sit still during Circle Time" I doubt I will get a useful answer.
ACK :oD
Speaking of Martie, she kind of sideswiped me today. She brought in a Watchtower booklet about the "fact" that witches are the unwitting servants of satan. GAD! Needless to say I was a little pissed/hurt at that. I thought we had agreed to disagree on the topic of religion and just be friends and here she throws this thing at me first thing in the morning. She said her faith required her to show it to me and if she didn't she would be in some way held cosmically responsible for dereliction of duty or something. After I calmed down I asked if we could just say that she tried and we will just concede that she thinks I should convert and I think I shouldn't and go on from there. She said she was ok with that so keep your fingers crossed. I love Martie to death. She is a really wonderful person. But I don't think I could go through something like that again. It was way too yucky coming from someone I think of as a friend.
Ok. Back to data entry.
YUCK!!!
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