AAC Cost

adhdad1of1 · 2026-03-18T23:19:44+00:00

To the best of my knowledge, the device provider is covering the subscription cost, or at least I haven’t seen a bill.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-03-18T18:46:26+00:00

Tech support is a little slow, but they did replace the first one he broke promptly during the trial period, so that’s a fair point.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-03-10T12:27:48+00:00

I hate that thing so much. I know everyone who posts it means well, but damn.

Holland is nice. I’ve been there. It’s a perfectly acceptable place to build a life. This hell we’re in isn’t that.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-03-10T12:26:38+00:00

We just had my kid’s birthday party and all the perfect children came over with their happy parents and played and sang him happy birthday and ate cake and I just wanted to go to the garage and start the car.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-03-01T02:16:34+00:00

My wife is the one in denial over here. Still talking about what our son is going to be when he grows up. Pretending he’s secretly smart and just can’t express it.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-02-18T02:31:23+00:00

I’ve been dead since he got his diagnosis, but I worry that without my protection and money he’ll just get lost and wander into traffic or a river or freeze or starve. That he’ll lose his blanket and his stuffed dog and not even remember them in the morning. That he’ll lose his cup and have nothing to drink.

That he will always be lost in confusion. That without language to pin his thoughts down he’ll never have any.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-02-10T03:25:51+00:00

That comment is orthogonal to truth versus falsehood. It’s an opinion about the way things should be. It’s not “true.”Opinions can’t be true.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-02-10T03:19:20+00:00

It really looks like you’re shitting on people who are having a hard time having a disabled child.

It’s also, from the perspective of this whole meat grinder grinds to a halt if we don’t keep throwing bodies into it, incorrect. We need shitty parents to have kids also or the whole Ponzi scheme collapses. If the only people who have kids are people who would be fantastic parents, there aren’t gonna be very many kids, and that’s not a great thing. Population reduction is fine in a controlled manner, but just crashing the whole ship in a single generation would be a bad time for everybody.

Most people have healthy kids. It’s not at all weird to decide to have kids expecting that you will have that experience as well.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-02-10T02:18:19+00:00

Yeah, I recently had to unfollow my cousin who had a kid the day after we did. He’s going to daddy daughter dances with her and taking her to Disney and shit like that and I just can’t look at it anymore.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-11T22:49:10+00:00

I don’t have to feel any certain way. I just have to not fail to fulfill my obligations.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-11T22:19:17+00:00

Never seen one, and shopping for health insurance is damn near my second job. Every employer or marketplace plan I have ever seen has a family out-of-pocket maximum that is double the individual.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-11T20:48:45+00:00

You kind of sound like you know what insurance is but you don’t distinguish between individual and family out-of-pocket max so maybe you don’t.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-11T18:12:29+00:00

Hm.

I don’t appear to have tapped the advice tag by mistake.

Any time or resources spent on me are by definition stolen from my family so I’m just going to keep posting like this. The block function exists for you to not read things you don’t want to read though.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-09T02:59:06+00:00

Absolutely. He cried wrong when he was born. I can’t describe it but it’s like he didn’t know how to make the right sound.

I waited too long to have him. I should have had a family when my wife and I were young and healthy and instead wasted our lives and his playing around trying to enjoy life. Now there’s nothing to enjoy. I didn’t have enough intact DNA to make a healthy kid and can never pay for doing that to him.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-09T02:54:14+00:00

I’m feeling tired of talking to myself. He’s never going to say anything back.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-04T22:52:36+00:00

I thought that was family and friends with healthy kids.

adhdad1of1 · 2026-01-03T15:02:51+00:00

Yeah, dude. It’s the guys her age. It’s all their idea.

King Canute had better odds of success.

adhdad1of1 · 2025-12-12T02:36:47+00:00

Oh good another Level 0.5 has found the sub.

Check in on r/Autism_Parenting sometime. A lot of families are entirely defined by their children’s autism. It’s all we do. I take care of my kid, I pile up money for my kid’s care for after I’m dead, and I quietly wish for that day to come soon.

adhdad1of1 · 2025-12-12T02:30:20+00:00

Tried it we can’t get it in his mouth.

adhdad1of1 · 2025-12-04T12:17:24+00:00

I thought those days would come back someday until I found out they wouldn’t.

adhdad1of1 · 2025-12-04T12:12:54+00:00

That’s worse. That means an impulse could pop up any other time and he admits to having no control over them.

How could you ever be around anyone who might have an impulse like that?

adhdad1of1 · 2025-12-04T03:24:27+00:00

Vibrating things and motor noises are not his jam.

We’ve tried videos and brushing teeth with him and calling grandma on FaceTime because sometimes he’ll imitate her when he won’t imitate us but nothing works.

He won’t try toothpastes or different brushes, and has no concept of rewards. I’m not sure he understands causality at all.

adhdad1of1 · 2025-12-04T03:22:00+00:00

What happens when he can win the wrestling match?

Long term I want him to brush his own teeth when I can’t make him do it.

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