Monthly Archives: August 2015

Trying to understand Reactive Attachment Disorder

We were having a pretty good day, and then Mom called to let us know that she was coming home from work. After that, all kinds of behaviors came out. He let the dog loose from its tie out, and unclipped the tie out from the house bolt. Then when I talked to him about what would happen if the sheriff got a hold of the dog instead of us, he tried blaming other people.  Said that “we live in small town, there must be bad people here.” Once things calmed down, which surprisingly enough occurred right after mom got home, I asked him if he does this when I call and say that I am coming home, and he said yes. Trying desperately to understand Reactive Attachment Disorder. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Goal setting

In an effort to help David be as successful as he can be I have talked to him about goals. Setting goals, meeting goals, and thus achieving success.  Day long goals are too much for him to comprehend, so we are going hour to hour.  Let’s hope this works.  Struggling this morning, but goal setting is new to him. Ciao. Tweet #fighting4answrs

and so it starts – trying to manipulate the world around him.

We picked him up from safe bed at 3:30.  4 hours later, we have already had nearly two hours of behavior. Because he had to eat supper before we could watch “friends”. What could have been a 10 minute meal, turned into nearly 40 minutes of behavior. All kinds of excuses regarding why he couldn’t eat.  Then 25 minutes of climbing around underneath the table instead of sitting in a chair. So we set the food in the fridge so that he can eat it for snack at 8pm. I compromised.  I also have a 30 minute recording of his behavior. We had a long day before we picked him up.  Hopefully we don’t have a long night as well. Rest easy my friends.  There is always hope that tomorrow will be a better day than today.  Yesterday is a memory.  We don’t need to forget the events of yesterday,

read more