Staley Da Bear has entered Bolingbrook!!! To my kids he's a very close 2nd to Santa!!! When I dropped them off this morning - "Staley's Car is here" was being screamed from teh back seat. Staley travels in a van with his picture and Bears signia all over it.
J was dressed to the 9s with sweat suit and shirt. S had her shirt on and wanted to wear her stocking cap and scarf all day - I talked her down from that one. God, it's crazy.
I, on the other hand, am down. I'm not sure it's a sickness or what. I slept from 9-3 yesterday and had NO problem sleeping through the night also. I started to read "10 Things Children with Autism Want You To Know" at swimming lessons last night and got so upset about what the author was saying that I darned near threw it in the pool. I'm SO very different than so many of the special needs parents that I meat.
On this line - what is it about this world and NOT wanting to categorize but TEACHING it???? Think about it - what do we first start teaching kids - colors, sorting shapes - all of this is categorizing. Putting things in a pile and assigning that pile a name - then when they get that mastered we tell them they shouldn't categorize and God forbid assign a name to ANYTHING!!!! Autistic, "has" autism - what's the big difference??? Personally I really dislike "has" autism because the fact is Autism "has" her!!! But seriously - what the heck does it matter? It used to be lumped into "retarded" and that wasn't right so we came up with Autism and now that's not right. Just what is it that we want???? I can really see how people get very frustrated with Special Needs parents.
I think this might be part of my down mood lately. I'm tired of the WHOLE thing - all of those "parents". And I've kind of lost the fire in my belly that usually dismisses and gives them a pass.
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