Um- hi! Remember me? I know, I have been remiss in my posting this week. We had a lot of unexpecteds, but nothing totally insane. Here I am. We live! We still have one fish, one snail, two cats, two kids, and an intact house. All is right in the world.
Currently, I have two little guys working hard to earn their last few stars, because they wan to go to Chuck E. Cheese something frantic. It is scheduled to rain this afternoon, so I am hoping they earn those stars sooner rather than later. Crowds are still titchy things for us.
Yesterday, we were at the park. One of Joey's classmates showed up, a very nice girl, we had seen her and her mom here and there all last summer, but never really gotten to speak with them. Joey and his friend juggled through playing, making concessions for each other so that Joey could call "Bonnogoes!"* as he liked, and she got to maintain her personal space. The mom was interesting. The friend isn't vaccinated, and they go to a pediatrician who offers "holistic practices" alongside regular medicine. She was surprised that I urged vaccination. She was surprised that I didn't think autism was caused by mercury and heavy metal poisoning. She was surprised that I thought Joey was autistic from birth. In other words, she thought I was crazy as the proverbial loon. But she remained pleasant (why get titchy with a lunatic?), then JoeyAndyDad and I took the two very tired boys home.
Andy has taken to hopping up first thing in the morning, running downstairs, and making sure the fish is still alive. Every. Day.
But otherwise, life goes on. I hope to spend this coming Friday working on the basement. It is kind of odd not have to write lectures from scratch every week, but I'll be doing some tweaking. I need to make some corrections in the online classes- typos and stuff. Looks like our Fearless Leader has finally figured it out, and I might have my summer and fall schedules this week (wow! I'll be able to plan stuff!). So we're chucking right along here. I'll try to do better with the posting and stuff.
*This is the soundification of "barnacles!" Joey has settled on, since he doesn't know much about Spongebob Squarepants- though apparently one of his classmates does.
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Sounds like a mellow time. Except for the fishicide. (Oh, I kid.)
I can relate to not posting due to distractions from real life. I didn't post for a month because of holiday stuff and homework. But now that I've made two posts over the last few days, I've got more people viewing my blog. I did one silly post on the "neuronormativity movement" and one on the fallacies of using intellectuals to justify autistic existence. You can find them here and here.
I live in a crunchier/alternative medicine type community so I completely understand your experience in the park. I often get looks that seem to indicate I've grown a second head or sprouted wings when I mention G is fully vaccinated or that we prefer scientifically proven medicine. Depending on the person I'm speaking with, it can be fun. ;)
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