The #Autism Help Forums will reopen later this morning. As you may recall, the forums didn't survive the recent move and I had to rebuild from scratch. It's a very time consuming process but I'm close enough to reopen to the public. I will be adding new forums as needed. You will have to sign up again, but unfortunately, there's no way around that. I've put up several forums and think they cover the most common topics. Please help me make the Autism Help Forums a successful once again. :-) You can find the link at the tip of this page or simply visit www.lostandtired.com/autismhelp

It's 3am and I'm not sleeping, obviously. I'm way to stressed out to sleep. I just need to vent for a little bit. Things around the Lost and Tried household are becoming more and more difficult. Yes, Gavin is out of the house.  However, that isn't some type of magic fix.  That was one fire and we have countless others left to put out.  Lizze is steadily going down hill and that means that I have to carry more and more responsibility.  How much is one person capable of carrying before they are crushed under the weight? As much as I try to find balance between working and taking care of Lizze and the boys, I just can't seem to find it.  We desperately need me working but at the…

The honeymoon period is officially over and Gavin is going to work on Lizze's parents.  On one hand, it's comforting to know that it isn't just us.  On the other hand, I feel totally betrayed....again. Gavin has begun the psychological warfare and is trying to gain sympathy and create tension between Lizze's parents and us. He's doing this by using one of his natural talents, lying.  He has told his grandmother that Lizze and I are sending him to a hospital that have him hooked up to an IV so they can perform medical experiments on him.  He also informed her that he would be there for almost four or five years.  Are you friggin kidding me?  WTF Gavin? Of course, she knew that wasn't true and let Lizze know…

This morning has been launched into orbit with the assistance of both Emmett and Elliott.  That right, we had a huge heaping helping of meltdown from both boys. Elliott was melting down over having to change into clean pants for school.  Emmett on the other hand melted down over......well, I never did figure that out.  Both Emmett and Elliott self-injured and that was unpleasant to say the very least. After Elliott was on his way to school, Emmett spent the next 30 minutes screaming as loudly as he could. He hits this extremely high pitched note that just makes my brain feel like it's going to explode. I was thinking we could share our stories about screaming kids.  Perhaps we might learn that we aren't alone.

People always ask me about my inspiration for what I do. Well, here it is. :-)

Last night, the boys had therapy with Dr. Patti.  We spoke with Elliott for a little while because he has been really, really struggling.  He's sad and extremely anxious. Emmett still seems to be taking steps backwards and honestly, that's got us pretty freaked out.  If we hadn't experienced regression before with Gavin,  I'd not be as concerned but.....we haven't been so lucky. Overall it went pretty well. Emmett had a meltdown that lasted for about 20 minutes or so. He also spent some time bullying Elliott and then learning about better ways of responding. Hopefully, something was learned by both Emmett and Elliott. I took this picture of Emmett and I thought that it was just super adorable. He chose his own outfit and got himself dressed.  I'm choosing…