From the category archives:

Autism

The Rant. Alternate title: Boo and the high school issue.

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First, my lovelies, I must backtrack and give a little background information.
Boo has many diagnosis’s. Autism, as you are already aware and Hyperlexia (which you would KNOW if you were a proper little stalker reading my about page) being the most significant.
Autism with a CARS score of 42. Which is kinda bad. The ‘take him [...]

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I believe it is called Stockholm Syndrome.

Today I drove back from a neighbouring town in the rain with the windscreen wipers off.
Because they made a squeaking sound.
And Boo doesn’t like squeaking sounds.
Boo loses his freaking MIND when there is a squeaking sound.
However, I WAS ALONE IN THE CAR and Boo was miles away in a warm classroom.
I was just PRACTISING driving [...]

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Hey Mummy.

You stand before me.
Trying to make conversation. But it is the same questions and same answers as always.
But you look deep into my eyes. Like you always have.
Hey Mummy.
Yes, my beautiful?
What weapon will your Ranger have?
I sit on the couch, you sit beside me with your head on my lap.
I cup your face in my [...]

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Boo’s best friend.

Boo’s best friends mother died.
Well, the closest Boo gets to a friend.
This little girl adores my boy, and last week while I kept my boy home lest he contaminate the other children with his inability to cover his mouth when he coughs, his friend was pining for him.
Needing him.
Something to distract her from the pain [...]

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MCIS

Magnetobold Criminal Investigative Service
Case No: 304 – Mysterious Blood Spatter
Victim: Boo aka The Dude aka Tiny Terrorist aka OMG get that out of your mouth! Is it FOOD? No, plastic is not a food group.
Evidence:
Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Victims mother states that she went into the victims room to unwrap him from his doona cocoon with [...]

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11 years 5 months 2 days

As you know, I applied for a job that I wasn’t really sure I wanted.
I knew I was perfect for it. I know the work, could just jump right on in and rock the shizzle out of it.
After the applications closed, the manager called me into a meeting room for a chat.
Niceties ensued, but the [...]

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Dude is a playa. Mummy has been pwned.

‘We will have takeaway for dinner’ were the first words out his mouth when I picked him up.
‘Nope’ was my reply.
For the next hour he vacillated between screaming and sobbing and heartwrenching looks and totally broke my resolve, culminating with me -

laying next to him on his bed while he cried into my hair with [...]

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The beside drawer.

We bought a new desk.
A desk for MPS. A desk for bills and the flotsam of life.
An adult desk without teeth marks and corners gnawed off the sides thanks to our boy-who-chews-everything.
A relatively cheap one, an interim desk if you will, a test desk to see if we can have at least one piece of [...]

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The hand you held.

Years ago, when I haunted Autism message boards soon after Boo’s diagnosis, I came across a poem.
A poem that never fails to make me cry fat hot tears.
Ever since then whenever someone special in Boo’s life moves on, I give them a copy of this poem printed on paper with his handprint.
Today I added another [...]

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And his teacher was all,Boo has something to tell you. And I could tell by the look on her face it wasn’t bad. Like he had smeared poo everywhere or peed on the principal or something. This time anyway.

On Friday I went to pick up Boo, just like I do on every school day.
Derr.
Anyway, I was standing out the front holding court talking to some of the mums, when Boo burst out the door and flung himself at me with a big smile on his face.
‘Tell mum your good news!’ The teacher called [...]