Category Archives: adhd

frustrations and a welfare check – followed by explanation

Well, we survived our welfare check.  Now to wait for the report and determination. I am satisfied with what I think of the visit with social services. I am frustrated with what I see as someone trying to discredit myself, my wife and our family through lies and innuendo.  By filing a neglect and abuse complaint they wasted valuable time of some very important people.  I am not talking about me.  I am talking about the staff at social services.  Well, wasted isn’t the right word.  I am proud of their response to this whole situation.  I am proud that they take these complaints seriously and make the visit.  We weren’t so proud of the decision last year when the complaint that was filed on David’s behalf came back as “no services required.”  That complaint was against the school.  We didn’t file it.  Someone else did.  The complaint at that

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Welfare Check

We had a visit from the county Social Services office.  Someone made a complaint about us. the issues: clutter in our house Locks on doors and cupboards animal odor blog. I can’t be told who made the complaint.  Confidentiality applies.  I understand. I actually welcome this type of investigation or visit from Social Services.  Why?  It is simple, we have nothing to hide. The visit went well.  The social workers will go back and file their report. We are fairly open with the social workers who work with our family.  There are many.  I offered to give a list of them to the people who visited today.  We are doing the things that we are doing for the safety, health and well-being of our whole family, not just one child. And my blog is still going to be here.  The blog is where I can decompress and talk about the

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The magic of questions regarding disability.

So David is in trouble.  mostly for non-compliance. What is non-compliance? It is not listening. It is not following the rules.  It is going into other peoples bedrooms without their permission.  It is deciding when you can take your medication and when not to take it.  It is deciding that you can eat what ever you want whenever you want as long as it isn’t supper time.  It is many things.  these are only a few. So he is being on time out. Today at the supper table I told him that he couldn’t remove his time release rittalin patch until he had permission.  Minutes later he asked if he could go to the bathroom.  When I told him that I would check his patch when he came out, he showed it to me.  He had decided to take it off, because “I didn’t hear you tell me I couldn’t

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