a very real fear this Christmas
Just received the weekly report that encompasses all of the week not just the immediate emergence of chronic cases. Today was another “off” day. David destroyed a bunch of recently created Christmas decorations that his peers had made. Evidently he was upset. He did a number of other things, including trying to run away. He destroyed some carpet in the lower level of the lodge, he unplugged a bunch of computers in his classroom. He has been generally combative. He broke into the refrigerator and stole a bunch of Pediasure. Drank all of them. He has threatened to kill staff. There is so much more, that I feel overwhelmed by the details of it all. To be fair to David, it seems that all of the peers in his unit or lodge are struggling right now. Since all of the kids with him have an Autism diagnosis of some type,