I can't tell you how often I get asked by parents about medications.  While I will never offer advice on whether or not you should medicate your child, I'm happy to share our personal experience with medications.  I've realized that there are a great many questions that parents have about whether or not medication is right for their child.  This is a rather sensitive issue but one that is important.  I like to see people sharing information, based on their personal experiences, even when it comes to medications. Let me just say this.  Please do not confuse the sharing of experience with actual medical advice. When medications are discussed on this site, it is never with the intention of replacing actual medical advice.  You should never start or stop a…

I wanted to take a minute and explain some of the recent changes I've made to Lost and Tired. As I'm sure you are aware of, I've been having a nunber of server issues lately.  You may experience instances where this site won't load or load properly. I've been working with Bluehost to get these issues addressed.  Basically, the problem comes down to overwhelming amounts of traffic.  Obviously, this is a good thing. It means lots of people are benefiting from this site and lots of #Autism Awareness is being spread. However, the downside to this is that I'm having to implement things like Cloud Services in order to spread out the load, so as not to overwhelm the server. These solutions seem to be helping but they cost money…

So,  I went to crash on the couch for a little while and I felt this lump underneath me.  I sat up and saw what appeared to be a bunched up sock, under the blanket I was laying on.  However, when I tried to move the sock, this is what I found.  Now, I happened to remember Mrs.  Clause being told that Silly Puddy was not a good idea.. The Gorski boys like to leave that kind of thing laying around. Santa suspected something like this would happen.  Mrs.  Clause however, decided that they really needed it anyways.  :-) All I can say is that sometimes Santa knows best. ;-)

As difficult as our lives are and as overwhelmed and demoralized as I can get at time, I really try to find some positive. Sometimes the positive is that fact that it could have been worse. Other times it's a real victory like making a good choice or reaching a milestone. Then there are those times when I'm feeling like I'm in a not so good place and one of the boys does something totally crazy and random.  No matter how bad of a mood I'm in, I can't help but smile, laugh and feel better.  This happened last night and came out of nowhere.  Emmett pulled his shirt over his head and just walked around as though nothing was wrong. It was just so unlike him that it caught…

I mentioned earlier that Emmett was mot having a good day. All morning long, he's been changing his mind about everything and then screaming at us as though we weren't listening to him or something.  He wanted one kind of cereal this morning and when I gave it to him, he screamed at me because he now wanted a different kind. I could just start doing the opposite of what he's asking and perhaps head things off at the pass.  However, it would then be that he wouldn't change his mind and I'd be screwed anyway. I'll be really honest with you, I don't have the energy for this today.  I love Emmett but goddammit if he isn't going to drive me crazy this morning.

I was wondering if your child with or without #Autism have a favorite song? I was listening to Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton the other night. Emmett was in a really bad place and very much overstimulated. He climbed up on my lap and feel asleep listening to this song play over and over again. It seems to really relax him now when he's upset about something. Most times, when he's really upset, he will scream if we try to play music. However, this is a recent exception to that rule. I don't know what it is about this song, perhaps the acoustic guitar, but he finds this very calming. I was wondering if your family had something like this as well? I wanted to get a feel for what…