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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Posts tagged sleep away camp. Taking on the autism Demogorgon (OR: In which it becomes clear I got a little too into Stranger Things). This past year Benjamin changed a lot. He had opinions and made them known, he took care of things all by himself, he understood the flow of our week. At volume number 14. On Friday afternoons we baked chocolate chip sticks, and on Sundays he packed up for his day at a respite program. In fact, I’...
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I Hate Your Kids - Solving the Florida summer problem
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Solving the Florida summer problem. But overall I’m fine. It’s hard not to love the beach, 75 degrees in February, and…I know there’s one more. I’ll definitely think of it soon, for sure. I miss the Northeast, when sometime between Memorial Day and Fourth of July there’s this communal mood swing and the whole place packs up and hits the beach or the mountains. Where rhythms change and everyone feels like different, better ver...All thi...
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I Hate Your Kids
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Our beach vacation, by Benjamin (who sometimes talks too much). Benjamin is in the middle of a huge language burst and because of this I am amazed, proud, and thankful. I am also, I realize, a bit of a hypocrite. Topping my list of painful-to-hear humble brags was this gem: “He just never stops talking! These days Benjamin is doing quite nicely in speech therapy, and he often says “Mommy” and “help” and “I...Wasn’t it good? 8232;Benjam...
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I Hate Your Kids - Me vs. Benjamin. It’s on. And I’m getting crushed.
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Me vs Benjamin. It’s on. And I’m getting crushed. Of the week: Choose your battles. We all do this all the time, no matter who our children are. With Benjamin, though, these moments when I’m deciding whether or not to give in or take him on seem more loaded, more fraught, than they do with my neurotypicalish kiddos. Let’s see who won yesterday’s smackdown. It’s my favorite lunch spot as well.). Who employed the sneaky tactic of request...
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I Hate Your Kids - Greetings from autism family camp
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Greetings from autism family camp. As I have previously expressed, I wasn’t quite sure how this whole camp thing would go over. Anyway, so far so good. Even Benjamin, who is highly anxious in new settings, has been in a great mood probably 70 percent of the time. I guess it’s hard not to love running around the mountains, swimming, and eating s'mores. Here he is at the ultimate sensory carnvial that is Ooey Gooey Sticky Night.
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I Hate Your Kids
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Me vs Benjamin. It’s on. And I’m getting crushed. Of the week: Choose your battles. We all do this all the time, no matter who our children are. With Benjamin, though, these moments when I’m deciding whether or not to give in or take him on seem more loaded, more fraught, than they do with my neurotypicalish kiddos. Let’s see who won yesterday’s smackdown. It’s my favorite lunch spot as well.). Who employed the sneaky tactic of request...
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I Hate Your Kids - Benjamin’s typical summer at special needs camp
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Benjamin’s typical summer at special needs camp. As a kid, the thing I loved most about sleep away camp was that out there in the Canadian wilderness, surrounded by walls of graffiti from campers past and gimp bracelets and a tight-knit group of people I only saw two months out of the year, I could be a different version of myself. While I had a very specific set of reasons. Ldquo;He really was! Benjamin’s counselors (pictured ab...
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I Hate Your Kids - Our beach vacation, by Benjamin (who sometimes talks too much)
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I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Our beach vacation, by Benjamin (who sometimes talks too much). Benjamin is in the middle of a huge language burst and because of this I am amazed, proud, and thankful. I am also, I realize, a bit of a hypocrite. Topping my list of painful-to-hear humble brags was this gem: “He just never stops talking! These days Benjamin is doing quite nicely in speech therapy, and he often says “Mommy” and “help” and “I...Wasn’t it good? 8232;Benjam...
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I Hate Your Kids
http://ihateyourkids.tumblr.com/tagged/humblebragging
I hate your kids. And other things autism parents won’t say out loud. Our beach vacation, by Benjamin (who sometimes talks too much). Benjamin is in the middle of a huge language burst and because of this I am amazed, proud, and thankful. I am also, I realize, a bit of a hypocrite. Topping my list of painful-to-hear humble brags was this gem: “He just never stops talking! These days Benjamin is doing quite nicely in speech therapy, and he often says “Mommy” and “help” and “I...Wasn’t it good? 8232;Benjam...
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