Comments on: Persevera-what?

By: lastcrazyhorn

lastcrazyhorn — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:30:23 +0000

If you only knew about my obses–er–perseverations whilst growing up . . . there was a point (a long point) where I was obsessed with bathrooms and their locations in every building that I had ever been in. As a result, I think, I still have a pretty good sense of places that I’ve been in, even if it was several years ago.

Yes, that is C to a T. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen every bathroom west of the Mississippi (and plenty of them east as well). For a long time, the noise scared him, but then his interest in the pipes overcame the stress about the noise. For a slightly germ-o-phobic mom, that was a tough phase!

By: Jesch

Jesch — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:38:17 +0000

amen, walkabout, amen

By: awalkabout

awalkabout — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:29:11 +0000

You know, and yet we can’t seem to just accept the compliment. Because they ARE smart. And they ARE well-mannered. But we always go back to focus on the other part. It’s a struggle, but I hope some day I can just look at what they ARE, instead of what they aren’t.

I know, I’m always sort of giggling to myself when people compliment us on him, because I sometimes wonder if people think we’re putting flash cards in front of him all day (that’s a post office story about numbers I’ll share soon), so I find myself explaining that yes, he is bright, no, I’m not drilling him on equations all the time, and yes, he does have autism. I guess I’m hypersensitive to that annoying parent who brags on their child ALL the time (while completely missing the fact that they are putting the cat into the microwave at that very moment) - I feel like we see the full picture of our child, the awesome parts and the challenging parts (which are also sometimes awesome)! But I’ve gotten to the point now where I don’t “explain” him all the time and just say “Yes, he is my smart boy!” So perhaps I’m turning into that bragging parent anyhow.

By: hfamom

hfamom — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:41:02 +0000

J is into naming off who does the voices of his favorite cartoon characters… a few days ago we went to see Horton Hears a Who and he told the whole theater lobby that Jim Carrey Does the Voice of Horton and the rest of the list– He got some really impressed looks from the adults around us.

Our children come off as brilliant to strangers who only hear part of the conversation… could be worse, right?

I love it…what other kid would know that? Very, very cute. And yes, all the time people in stores and such are asking us how old he is and telling us how smart he is…which, of course, he IS, but it’s only part of the picture!

By: awalkabout

awalkabout — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:20 +0000

I’m sorry, I’m still laughing at the accuracy of Pterodactyl Boy. HAHA! I know just the sound. Honestly. HAHAHA. OMG we get humor in odd places don’t we? HAHAHAHAHA.

True, isn’t it? We used to call him that as a baby because it’s about the only noise he made. It wasn’t particularly unpleasant - at least when you weren’t within 10 feet of him - but I swear, if I closed my eyes I could pretend I was in the Jurassic Park movie. LOL!

By: Jesch

Jesch — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:56:43 +0000

Amen to that, T$. I miss the presidents and state capitals…

I do too - I keep hoping he’ll get back into something more academic soon. They are starting presidential coins, so we’ll probably start collecting those and perhaps that will spark his interest again.

By: T$

T$ — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:45:58 +0000

i cannot wait until galaga 88 takes it’s place in the dustbin of C’s latest obsession.

I hear you on that one, although you guys are taking the brunt of it at the moment. I wish he was still excited about email, but I think he typed too slow for it to be of lasting interest. Perhaps I should teach him how to type….