Elliott had the hardest time falling asleep last night. I was up with him until well after 3 AM. He wasn't upset about anything or stressed out about anything either. He simply couldn't sleep. He seems to go through these periods of time where he really struggles to sleep. This is one of the reasons we're keeping an eye on him for signs of being Bipolar. Major sleep disruptions can be a sign of mania and Gavin definitely experienced that before he was medicated for Bipolar Disorder. Hopefully, the rest of the day will go smoothly for him. I hate sending him to school with such little amounts of sleep but he seems fine and we can't miss school for this. Praying that bedtime will go better for him tonight…

We're having some problems with Elliott at school. It's not so much a major problem yet but it is being problematic and what happened yesterday is a perfect example. I'm not going into detail on this because the specifics don't matter and are way too tedious to recount anyway. Essentially, the problem is that Elliott is coming home from school reporting problems and when I speak to his teachers about it, their story is very different than Elliott's. Someone's got to be lying right? Not necessarily. What we're seeing is that Elliott latches onto one or two words he hears and filters out everything else. That everything else is the context surrounding the words he's latched onto. He also focuses on what happened to him and filters out all the…