I've been discussing something along these lines today, on the Lost and Tired Facebook page.  The  question I asked was this: Do you ever feel like you've let your child down? The response was really good and everyone is being really honest.  Something else that got brought up in the course of conversation was the quilt associated with special needs parenting. The vast majority admit to feeling guilty or responsible for what their kids go through. This got me thinking.  How can we help each other to not feel a lot of this needless guilt? Speaking for myself, I feel a tremendous amount of guilt for what my boys have to go through. I realize that it's not really my fault but it doesn't really help me.  I think that…

You know something.  When your a special needs parent,  you learn to never take anything for granted.  Every moment is precious. I like to take advantage of every possible moment in order to make memories that I'll carry with me. This site is managed via WordPress for Android, courtesy of the @SamsungMobileUS Galaxy Note 2 by @Tmobile. Please forgive any typos. I know how to spell but auto-correct hates me.  ;-) For more ways to help the Lost and Tired family, please visit Help the Lost and Tired Family.

Today was one of those days when we get news about one of our kids that really makes us feel like an epic failure. I mentioned earlier that Emmett was going to be at Akron Children's Hospital today for an eye exam. We've been noticing that he seems to have trouble with his vision and so we wanted to get him in. Turns out that his vision is really, really bad.  His right eye sees 20/200 and his left eye sees 20/80. This means that his right eye sees things at 20 feet away as though they are 200 feet away.  His left eye sees things at 20 feet away as though they 80 feet away. Obviously he has a Stigmatism and I believe they said near sighted. He can…

I wanted to compile a list of #Autism facts as you see them, through your eyes. We all know what the doctors say.  We all know what the big autism organizations say.  However, in my opinion, we need to hear what the people in the trenches have to say.  We need to listen to the parents as well as teenage and adult autistics that have been trying to speak but no one ever listens to. The way I see it, if we work together to provide a comprehensive list of the did you knows  about autism that reflects our individual or personal experience, we could help people to have a better idea of what Autism actually is. Please share at least one autism related fact or something about autism from…