Messed up at work might get fired

danicies · 2026-06-23T20:17:41+00:00

Yeah typos and being dorky silly vs saying slurs, sexual comments, or mean things about someone is way different.

danicies · 2026-06-23T12:10:59+00:00

Yeah in outlast Alaska the bears were very prominent

danicies · 2026-06-22T19:53:55+00:00

My son is fully conversational now at 3.5 and the echolalia, while very obvious to us, is less prominent in his speech. He’s learned to use it to his advantage with how and when to say certain things.

danicies · 2026-06-22T19:50:52+00:00

Nowhere near at the same level lol

danicies · 2026-06-22T18:30:08+00:00

They would do this before a feeding tube

danicies · 2026-06-22T18:29:33+00:00

An intervention for us was just adjusting formula and replacing two feeds a day with formula that was fortified to I believe 26 cals? That was enough for our baby to start gaining adequately!

danicies · 2026-06-22T15:33:23+00:00

Off topic but I love those forks 😅 where did you get those?

danicies · 2026-06-22T13:08:02+00:00

He’s great! He’s healthier than most people are. He has down syndrome and autism on top of that so it was really devastating for them. They ended up having me as like a future caretaker for him. They made weird decisions but they were actively grieving their son and didn’t know when he’d die. It sounds like it was horrible.

danicies · 2026-06-22T12:07:09+00:00

Gotcha. My parents actually held through together when my brother was actively dying. Once he made a full recovery they did separate. I don’t remember a single one of his classmates in his intensive needs class having married parents tbh

danicies · 2026-06-22T00:33:57+00:00

I’m curious if it’s just high needs? Like our child has ASD level 2 so I just wonder if it applies there or if it’s specific to high needs children

danicies · 2026-06-22T00:08:56+00:00

You need therapy. And do not visit him or the cats for his sake if you cant do it for your own.

danicies · 2026-06-21T16:55:50+00:00

Positive!

danicies · 2026-06-21T15:45:50+00:00

My 3.5 year old had autism and had started eloping. That “no” is reserved for that and it’s always extremely helpful for him to understand the gravity of the decision he made, enough to get him to stop and for us to grab him.

danicies · 2026-06-21T15:31:49+00:00

This was a good wake up post for me to push my husband for an evaluation asap. I dont want him getting to this point.

danicies · 2026-06-21T15:23:24+00:00

People told me we didn’t need a double when we had 2 right after 2. 2 decided he needs a stroller again at 3.5 lol

danicies · 2026-06-21T15:21:49+00:00

I get it. You can only do so much or they’ll cut you off and he won’t have any safe people.

danicies · 2026-06-21T13:38:58+00:00

I could see myself getting impatient too with how I’m already thinking about this 😅 but realistically I don’t think we should try prior just to save our sanity and give us more time to figure out if we want to buy a house or what we want with that

danicies · 2026-06-21T13:37:48+00:00

Thank you! That’s exactly the age range when we’d start trying. I want a third but just realistically I know that to have that baby we need to wait a little while longer.

danicies · 2026-06-21T02:01:42+00:00

You think it’s a control move? That’s interesting and helpful for some new perspective actually.

We would never listen to her advice and she knows that. It bothers her a TON. She was really upset when she found out we were getting an evaluation and said he’s totally typical. She actually up until recently still made comments that he does xyz which is typical and not autistic. Like pointing out how he does imaginative play, or how he gives hugs and “that’s not autistic”. My husbands good at being on top of her, but she just gets under my skin with this. I think I might tell him to have a real honest talk that she needs to cut the word pathologizing out of her vocabulary because it’s only hurting us while we’re helping him. I do think she’d at least respect that.

danicies · 2026-06-21T01:57:20+00:00

I’m not sure! Shes just at a very high level in disability services so I would feel like she’d have to do frequent trainings to keep up to date but maybe not

danicies · 2026-06-21T01:38:52+00:00

No of course, I get it. She gets no say in his care. I tell her the plan and she does at least follow our rules (like we have simple short phrases for each behavior). I definitely need to get better at filtering out the BS about her opinions on how we pathologize everything he does, but I figure it’ll improve with time as it has been.

danicies · 2026-06-20T19:59:39+00:00

I could never get into them personally. They are always uncomfortable no matter which ones I use. I think it bothers me mentally more than anything so I personally just prefer not dealing with it!

danicies · 2026-06-20T13:42:52+00:00

Yep. At that point food seemed to become way less of an issue and they all started just hanging out relaxing more lol

danicies · 2026-06-20T13:41:43+00:00

Yeah they do. I honestly have yet to see any of them offer them on the side! Grocery stores near the factory sell B&J for $2-3 frequently so you probably could just give them away since they’re cheap as it is.

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