I need to anonymously confess...

[Anonymous]

How I long for the day my child will argue with me

I'd give my everything for it

Anonymous wrote: My DC with HFA is.driving.me.insane!!!! I love DC with all my heart. I really do. I would absolutely give up my life for DC-take a bullet for dc-donate a major organ. It's just this is my time off from work and I think I'm much happier at work. Before DC I thought I was a very patient person. I'm not. We have done a few playdates. We do activities DC wants to do and we have some fun together, but DC is going through a really whiney phase. Oh and an argumentative phase-like a mini lawyer. Everything is seen as worthy of fighting for rights. DC has gotten so quick tempered too-used to manage that better. DC also drones on and on about favorite topics which are not of interest to anyone else on the planet (I exaggerate). Even camp didn't quench this. I would pick DC up after camp and got a days dose of cray cray in the time until DC went to bed.

Yes, we have some great interactions too.Yes we use all the techniques to help DC with more appropriate conversation. Yes, we use and have humor. Yes, we do OT and a million other things. Yes, we reward prosocial behavior and yada yada. I just.need.schoo.to.start YESTERDAY!!! Labor day weekend is too late. Man I hope DC isn't this challenging with teachers this school year. Maybe I should show up at open house with booze and say "you're going to need this." JK

Why am I venting here anonymously? Because I don't even want to admit to myself just how much my kid is driving me nuts.

[Anonymous]

If this weren't an anonymous forum I'd never have the guts to admit that my kid has had an obscene amount of iPad time and tv/movie time the past week. I really do play with my kids, I do, but I also have to get shit done and dc seems to have lost all ability to play by himself and I don't have the energy to keep pushing it right now.

[Anonymous]

My lower functioning autistic kid is non verbal. So I guess I win because he can't 'talk back'. Sometimes I wish I had problems like these.

[Anonymous]

I hope the open house that OP is bringing booze to is at Maddux, and that she shares.

And for 15:56 and 20:32, wow. God bless you and good luck. I had a conversation with another Aspergers parent a while back about how strange it is to struggle so much with the diagnosis that is what many people are hoping for. I do feel lucky, most of the time. If there's something that our crowd can do for yours, this is probably the place to ask. But our kids are really awful on playdates, and we're pretty stressed out too--even if it's about different things. Having a kid who is completely capable of engaging with the world and wants to, but just cannot do it successfully, is scary in its own way.

[Anonymous]

Labor day is *so* late!