Not everyone should have kids. It shouldn’t be an expected order of things: High school. Then college. Job. Engagement. Marriage. Buy house. Have 2.5 kids. Work until you retire. Wish you had something to do, wish you still felt important to the world. I may not understand it fully but I feel it coming, all this being pushed off the planet by the next generation and the generation after that and the generation after that.
Archive for December, 2011
residential educational facility
Posted in Anderson School, autism, behavior, doctor, placement, The Anderson School for Autism, Uncategorized, tagged residential educational placement on December 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
july 30th
Posted in autism, grandma, singing, singing, Uncategorized, tagged 1969, autism, Christmas Eve, Eric Clapton, Four Winds, Gordon Lightfoot, Grease, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Heller, Mario Puzo, Paul Simon, The Beach Boys, Thomas Hardy, vinyl records, Woodstock on December 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
On Christmas Eve I went with M to return a fixed computer to a man’s apartment; the guy had autism and softhearted M had done the work for free. The man had all these vinyl albums hung on the walls, and each album had a painting or design on it. In another room he’d constructed 3-D sculptures from popsicle sticks and fuzzy dots and crafty pieces of all kinds of things.
closer
Posted in Anderson School, autism, The Anderson School for Autism, Uncategorized, tagged Capital District Parent Pages, Cranberry Guster, home, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Mr. Ned Fleischer, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time on December 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
He’s an only child, now one of 8 kids in a family of rotating caregivers.
I want them to love him, unconditionally, and that is an unreasonable thing. I can’t help wanting it. I don’t care. Some days I think this has all gone on too long now. Some days it is all I can do not to drive there and snatch him away. But I know I can’t take care of him either, and it would be doing him a terrible disservice. I need this to be the case.
