Category Archives: antisocial personality disorder

a midsummer nights update

Things are kind of rocking along here in whynotfathers land. Our youngest son is still being home schooled.  We still don’t know what is supposed to be in the Service Plan that we are supposed to file with the school district.  Our state Department of Public Instruction gave me our state century code as guidelines, and then referred me to our school superintendent for more advice.  The superintendent told me to ask my wife.  My wife, who teaches in special education in another district, says he doesn’t need one, and even if he did, doesn’t know what is supposed to be in it. Our local newspaper did a feature story about David and I, about our little home school.  It was kind of neat.  Wish we could have talked about the issues with our local district a little more, but getting the word out about kids having special needs was

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Mediation Request redux submitted

Well, I broke down and submitted the mediation request.  The school as you may remember requested mediation in our quest for an IEP for David that would allow him to return to public school in his home district.  I had written a rebuttal to their request. Today I listed the 20 or so people on David’s team who need to be present at the meeting.  With the change in key personnel at our Support Services group that the school utilizes, things should be interesting.  Don’t know if they will continue to allow the elementary school principal to run rough shod over parents or not, but we will see.  At any rate, we submitted the request. If for some reason Mediation goes the way the Facilitated meeting did, we will be in Due Process by Christmas.  I don’t see the benefit in Mediation, but am willing to try. We want them

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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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