Elliott has officially begun medication to weed out his ADHD symptoms.  We are about 8 hours in and so far so good.  ADHD medications are very fast acting meaning that they begin working almost immediately. It looks as though Elliott may have ADHD.  We have noticed a pretty significant change since this morning.  He's still anxious and full of worry, which is to be expected since we haven't gotten to the anxiety yet.  However, he's much calmer.  I keep asking him if he's alright because I'm so used to him literally bouncing off of everything in sight. Instead, he's actually just sitting down and even using his walking feet.  Our doctor explained to us that if it's going to work, we'll see a significant change the first day.  At this…

I wanted to share something that I thought was pretty amazing....   Elliott, my 6 year old with Aspergers absolutely loves the Glee version of Defying Gravity. What I truly find amazing is that he really likes the words of the song. He says it makes him feel better to listen to this. I think it's pretty deep for a 6 year old to recognize that a song has a message that fits his life. This is one of those truly profound moments that really amaze me as a parent. I really think it's cool that Elliott can relate to a song's lyrics. In my opinion, I think this song absolutely describes Elliott and I can understand why he relates to it so much. For a little boy, asked to cope with way…

Gavin's arrived home and Lizze and I were talking to him about his treatment of the hospital staff.  He basically told me that Mommy made a big deal out of nothing.  We informed him that he lost his choice for dinner and would be having oatmeal.  He was okay with that.  Lizze, while talking to me afterwards said that he probably didn't care about the oatmeal because he had pizza for lunch.  I responded to Lizze by saying, maybe he won't go to Grandma's this weekend.  Mind you,  I was talking to Lizze and not to Gavin.  In fact it was more like I was thinking out loud.  Apparently, Gavin overheard me and launched into a huge tantrum. I managed to get him into his room and he unleashed all…