Author Archives: David's Father

Evan Rachel Wood says Vanity Fair made her feel like ‘meat’ | Fox News —- a message to young ladies everywhere

Evan Rachel Wood says Vanity Fair made her feel like ‘meat’ | Fox News. ——— I sometimes come across online articles that make me ponder humanity.  I don’t know.  I guess I have little tolerance for haters. This actress posts about how she FELT during a photo shoot.  Something that was very personal for her to share.  Yet people are attacking her saying that she should feel privileged and stop complaining about being on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. It seems to me that they missed the purpose of her postings entirely. So she had to explain it to them.  I’ll let my readers peruse the article for themselves.  But a comment from me as a parent of two young ladies. I applaud Miss Wood for coming out about this.  I can’t imagine living in a fish bowl such as celebrity would bring.  Let alone to be a female

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This will be my final post on Lost and Tired » Lost and Tired – a farewell and thank you.

This will be my final post on Lost and Tired » Lost and Tired. Dear readers, No this isn’t me closing down my blog.  Our work isn’t yet complete.  This is a farewell to a friend in the blogging and advocacy community. ================== I have known Rob and Lizzie for almost 5 years.  He was my introduction to  the facebook group Reality Autism.  He was the inspiration behind finding my writing voice here at whynotfathers.com and in a few other places such as Special Happens. No one can fault Rob for his dedication to the world of Autism or his family.  The support he and his wife have offered so many for the past few years has been incredible.  I wish him luck in his future endeavors and hope that he knows he can count on me to help in any way that I can. So for now as we

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Medicaid Redux – Needs to be seen by an in-state practitioner

Dear readers, many of you may remember a number of months ago when I discussed the termination of David’s Court Ordered Medicaid.  After many emails and phone calls that situation was corrected, however with a limitation.  Because David is in an out of state placement, he is considered as living independent of the family.  Doesn’t matter that he is 13.  He is responsible for paying almost 1000 a month toward his care.  This is called recipient liability. Today, David’s mom learned that Medicaid is refusing to pay for dental and vision exams.  Why?  Because he has to be seen by an in-state provider. Can ND Medicaid possibly mess up anything else?  David didn’t ask to be placed there, we didn’t ask for all in-state facilities to refuse admission, leaving us no choice but to go out of state.   Tweet #fighting4answrs