Welcome to another week here at You are my "I love you"
We are spending a better part of this month choosing lines from the poem
You are my "I love you", and talking about how that line fits best
with our wonderful kids on the spectrum.
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what line fits you and your child.
"I am your quiet place, you are my wild" Holly & LuLu
I’m Holly from Holly Nicole Photography. My middle daughter has always been one of my inspirations. She is my muse in my photography and a light in my life I wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.
Let me first say that she hasn’t been diagnosed with anything yet. We have suspected she has Asperger’s for quite some time. I won’t bore you with each and every behavior she displays that has led us to this conclusion… I’ll save some of that for another post. Let’s just say that if you look online and go down the list of symptoms, she fits the description to a tee. I’ve also spoken to other Aspie mom’s and sometimes hearing their stories makes me feel like I’m talking to myself. I trust my gut, and we will be getting a formal evaluation soon. Her teacher also agrees with me that she displays Aspie behavior (he has experience teaching kids all over the spectrum) and has developed some wonderful strategies that have helped us see a ton of improvement in her behavior both at home and at school. But her grades, as always, are stellar and academically she excels so we have dragged our feet getting her evaluated. Now we are ready, not so we can change her, but so as she gets older and the hormones kick in, we can be ready to help her in any way we can to tackle life and live it to the fullest.
"I chose I am your quiet place, you are my wild” as my line in the poem because anyone who knows my middle knows she is a wild child. She is in your face, no holds barred, the loudest kid you’ve ever met. She doesn’t understand when it’s appropriate to be wild or loud and just lives life in" Lulu Land”, as we call it. She marches to her own drum. The “Wild” in the poem can be both good and bad with her. She can just be wild and all over the place, or she can be wild in her melt downs when she can’t process her emotions. Either way, I am the one she can turn to. I will hold her and calm her. I will guide to act the right way when she can’t understand what that means. I’m her constant, her rock, and she will always be my wild at heart.
"I am your water wings, you are my deep" Ellie & T
This is my youngest son, T.
T will be nine four days after Christmas, he is diagnosed with Autism, ODD, and has SPD and APD.. He is also a self harmer.
T was diagnosed after a long fight in July 2013, he's a "complex" child that fits into many "boxes" so they struggled to find the ones that applied to him most but we got there eventually.
T now attends a special needs school after barely managing part time attendance in a mainstream setting. He adores his new school and they adore him right back. He is now thriving after 3 very long years struggling.
T is an avid reader, he LOVES his books.. after many years being unable to read it seemed to suddenly click with him in his last summer at mainstream and he's been reading well above his age ever since. He loves Minecraft and his Xbox! (Don't most kids?)
So for my chosen poem line, I selected.. "I am your water wings, you are my deep"..
I chose this because this kid is attracted to water like a magnet! (Although he HATES water on his face and head with a passion!) They say autism and water go hand in hand and I am inclined to believe it. He is in his element playing out in the rain, esp with no socks, shoes or jumper on! (Queue the freaking out from me that he's going to catch his death doing so!) and if he's not outside he's indoors at the sink playing instead.
He is my deep.
I guess where he's my 'baby' I fret about him a lot more than I probably do his older brothers, he's a deeply intriguing boy and I often find myself wondering how life looks from his perspective. He has such a literal sense of thinking then some days he will "get something" even perhaps I didn't.
I could talk forever about how life is for T and us as a family but for now here is my chosen photo for T. Water guns aren't just for spraying.. But drinking too..
T was diagnosed after a long fight in July 2013, he's a "complex" child that fits into many "boxes" so they struggled to find the ones that applied to him most but we got there eventually.
T now attends a special needs school after barely managing part time attendance in a mainstream setting. He adores his new school and they adore him right back. He is now thriving after 3 very long years struggling.
T is an avid reader, he LOVES his books.. after many years being unable to read it seemed to suddenly click with him in his last summer at mainstream and he's been reading well above his age ever since. He loves Minecraft and his Xbox! (Don't most kids?)
So for my chosen poem line, I selected.. "I am your water wings, you are my deep"..
I chose this because this kid is attracted to water like a magnet! (Although he HATES water on his face and head with a passion!) They say autism and water go hand in hand and I am inclined to believe it. He is in his element playing out in the rain, esp with no socks, shoes or jumper on! (Queue the freaking out from me that he's going to catch his death doing so!) and if he's not outside he's indoors at the sink playing instead.
He is my deep.
I guess where he's my 'baby' I fret about him a lot more than I probably do his older brothers, he's a deeply intriguing boy and I often find myself wondering how life looks from his perspective. He has such a literal sense of thinking then some days he will "get something" even perhaps I didn't.
I could talk forever about how life is for T and us as a family but for now here is my chosen photo for T. Water guns aren't just for spraying.. But drinking too..
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