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>Preparations

>We are getting ready for meetings with the school. We are getting some assistance from an Education Specialist at the University. She asked to be invited to our next meeting, we are hoping for assistance from Protection and Advocacy as well. We are going to invite the school superintendent. If this doesn’t work, we will seek legal advice, under the Americans with Disabilities and Civil Rights Acts. On a plus side, we asked for an increase in the subsidy payment we get for M because of the special needs adoption and it was approved. Waiting for SSI determination. Waiting for Spring. Tweet #fighting4answrs

>$(%& School!!!

>By M’s standards, he had a good week. Unitl 2:30 pm on Friday afternoon. He rolled his pencil away and said he didn’t want to. School ends at 3:10. Couldn’t we just let it go. Nope. Got a call at 2:50 that the sheriff was at the school for M. Seems that after M said no, someone who doesn’t work with him, got involved and leaned on the table using her fists to hold herself up. (which some would consider a threatening position.) To quote the teacher who is working with M, he vacated which is the term that we use to describe what happens to him when he has a manic episode. It took two people to restrain him, and one person got bit in the process. The person who got bit was the person who doesn’t work with him and who helped (in my view) escalate the whole

>manic episode behavior

>Another thing M likes to do when he is having a manic episode is throw himself around. I have seen him throw himself at the wall, or bring himself from a standing position to a horizontal position in mid air, then letting himself fall to the floor. I have seen him land on his head. Then if he knows no one but you saw him do it, he will accuse you of hurting him. We used to think that his brothers and sisters were beating on him, until we saw him do that. Tweet #fighting4answrs