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Struggling as a father of children with special needs

Struggling as a father of children with special needs David, I am struggling today.  Well actually, I have been struggling for a while, I am just now manning up and admitting it to myself. David, you require a lot of attention.  At some times the attention involves raised voices.  We do everything we can to not let the other kids yell at you, but when it is their things that you are stealing, they need to be able to vent for a couple of minutes. No matter how many times we discipline you for stealing electronic gadgets from other family members, you still do it.  Last week it was in iPad.  In the past, it has been an Android tablet, a Kindle Fire, multiple iPods, mp3 players and cell phones.  As I write this it is Sunday, and you have stolen one iPod three times, and another once. Locked doors

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Tags: ADHD, autism support, bipolar, blogboost, Health, Mental disorder, mental health, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, ODD, reactive attachment disorder, Stress, traumatic brain injury ·

what is he plotting now? Updated

Never look at a good day and think there is nothing wrong. David was having an incredible good period this evening after school. Then his sister came home from volleyball. His sister went for a shower, David saw opportunity and took it.  Now we have a missing iPod. It isn’t so much the missing device as it is David’s response to being caught stealing.  Plus we still don’t have the device back. plus, I fell down.  Not good when you have vertigo issues.  So we are searching for the iPod. Why do we blame David?  Because that is what he does.  Plus the boys each have their own mp3 players.  Plus, this morning he had my Kindle, last week it was mom’s iPad.  Before that it was cell phones.  Mine, both brothers, sister. Not to mention all of the house phones.  He has had them cached in his room.  batteries

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Tags: ADHD, autism, Conditions and Diseases, Fibromyalgia, frustration, Health, Lupus, Mental disorder, mental health, non-compliance., obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, ODD, traumatic brain injury ·

stay tuned for your daily tantrum

David was in full form this morning with a tantrum. Grumpiness in the morning. He got gigged yesterday for have three small holes in his shirt.  Very small holes.  couldn’t fit the tip of a pencil through them. So I wrote a note to the school this morning that we are not able to purchase all new shirts for him just because of a few small holes. David decided to add the letter Y to the end of shortened proper nouns.  For example.  Calculator.  becomes Calcy.  So now we have an 11 year old running around the house talking like  a three year old saying “this is my calcy”. I cut the hood off of a perfectly good sweatshirt for David today.  Not allowed hoods at his school. David was on facebook this morning using my kindle.  I am sick so i couldn’t stay awake all night.  I just couldn’t

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Tags: ADHD, autism, frustration, mental health, non-compliance., obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, ODD, Stress, traumatic brain injury ·

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