Joy’s Autism Blog

Adrian has been doing really well with the potty issues we were having. Occasionally I will catch him trying to use Nevaeh’s little training potty but other than that no more issues. So next time we start having problems the first thing I’m going to check is the condition of the toilet seat.

Adrian is getting really stir crazy. They’ve been on winter break since just before Christmas and he is ready to go back to school. They go back on Monday and I am ready to get settled back into a routine so I’m looking forward to Monday. In the meantime I’m hoping to get the time to take the kids sledding today or tomorrow.

Adrian’s behaviour at home has been much less than desirable so I wanted to get him out of the house so I took him to run a couple of errands with me the other day and he was so good. We went to Walmart and he stayed with me the whole time and he didn’t yell the whole time which is a rare occasion for him. I was so proud of him!

Glen and I noticed something kind of sad when we were changing my blog stuff around. I changed from “categories” to “tags” (you can see that on the right-hand column of the site) We had a category for each of the kids by name except Adrian. All of Adrian’s stories were under the name “Our Family’s Autism Experiences” When I first started the blog back in 2006 the blog was just going to be about autism but it’s become more of journal about the whole family so it was sad to see all my Adrian stories become my autism stories in a way. So I’m in the process of adding Adrian’s name to a bunch of posts.

I’m sure pretty much everyone has heard about John Travolta’s son Jet passing away the other day. It’s so sad. This is the son that some people suspected had autism although the Travolta family said he didn’t have it. Autism or not, it’s very sad