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The Official Post About Your Family Thread

nightmare3983 said:
Share as much or little as you'd like to about your family. I'll start.

My wife is an ASL interpreter. I call her the Queen of Unsolicited Job Offers because it feels like she frequently gets asked about applying for some job or another.

I have three kids: two boys and the youngest is a girl. My oldest son is autistic (or at least has autistic tendencies - we don't have an official diagnosis) and is developmentally delayed. One of the few worries I have is questioning whether or not he'll ever be able to live on his own when he's older.

My middle child is deaf. He has what's called microtia and atresia. In short his ears never fully developed (microtia) and he has no opening to the ear canals (atresia). He's been going to preschool at the Jean Massieu School of the Deaf learning ASL while doing some speech therapy. He uses a bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) that allows him to hear fairly well, although it is sometimes hard to understand him when he's talking.

My daughter is little but really sassy. One of her favorite things to do is to tell me or her mom or grandma to "Go!" and leave the room so she can do something she's not supposed to.
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Great thread! Will definitely add to it as well as read all of the posts from the various posters.
 
Beer said:
Ok, so the 11 y.o. BIL I took to the Jazz thing with me is Autistic, Aspergers, ADHD, .... no official diagnoses as far as I know but has a lot of the symptoms of all three. So, there is a huge to do in their family about what to do with him. He goes to school but does terrible, but he is insanely good at building things, drawing, video games etc .... He took on all comers on the video games at the Jazz thing and didn't lose once in an hour. So the family is split between medicating him, which is nice because then he is calm but is sad because he seems dead inside. Or just letting him be which is sucky because he is THE MOST OBNOXIOUS HUMAN ON EARTH, but is good because he seems happy. His mom passed 2 years ago and his dad, supposedly works a ton (thats a whole nother story), so we take him everyday from 2 to 8 or so. I cannot do it everyday or I'll die. I literally cannot handle him everyday unless something changes. So my ? is .... how do you handle your autistic son? Any tips?
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This reminds of an article I recently read which at the time was considered rather controversial. I didn't think it was over the top or anything and though it's premise WAS on point for the most part.

Anyway, if you're interested, it's not too long of a read:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414/
 
I have no clue what my 4 y.o. is into because he does pretty much everything his older brother does. He's a pretty cool kid who goes with the flow and just has fun. That and punching everything. If he gets some size he'll be a bruiser for sure.

My baby is like Beer's kid, gets into everything he isn't supposed to instead of playing with toys. Lately he's been crawling around with a sock in his mouth all the time. It's pretty cute. He also does this weird smile thing where he blows out and smiles at the same time. Looks dorky cute as hell. He's a pain in the *** otherwise and has been sick since Thanksgiving.

My oldest is 7 and into all sorts of things. It started with astronomy and just keeps going. He's always asking questions about WWII, picked up chess, risk, that sort of thing on his own. When he was a baby we always had random people telling us he should be a baby model. I thought that's just how middle aged and old women act but we haven't had a single comment like that with our next two.
 
Nightmare, I have a deaf nephew and now a new deaf niece. The nephew got a cochlear implant at 2.5-3ish and you'd never tell he was deaf. If that's an option for anyone with deaf kids I'd highly recommend looking into it.
 
VINYLONE said:
Are you on some sort of life timeline where since you were a kid you needed to accomplish certain milestones by a certain age?
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Yeah I was on some sort of a timeline, ... get married and have a family by 30? But that date had come and gone, and still no sign of accomplishing it.... (so hard to find 'the one'). So now there is just no plan. None. Just a 'let it be' type situation.


No expectation = No disappointment
 
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