Dominic started walking around saying, "shut up" to us a week or so ago. We don't use that kind of language around here, so I was racking my brain trying to figure out where he would have heard it. After listening to him read his favorite Thomas the Tank Engine book, I realized he got that phrase from one of the stories!! Since he gets a reaction every time he says it, he thinks it's funny to say it. He'll go around saying, "shut up" to all of us, smirk and then laugh. I decided since he can read the Thomas book to himself, I better do something about it. So, I took a pencil, crossed out "shut up" and put "be quiet." Lauren used to love the "Junie B. Jones" series of books when she was in elementary school. It was written the way an elementary school girl spoke (not proper English). I kept wanting to say the sentence the right way, but I guess that was the charm of the book. I'm glad the hubby was the one that used to read that book to her most of the time!! I guess the other thing that bugged me about that book was that the little girl "Junie" could really be quite sassy at times. That's my new favorite word, "sassy." It's not a word you hear all too often. I guess it's a word more from my childhood :) Has anyone read the "Hunger Games?" I read recently that the American Library Association has it number three on the top ten list of "challenged" books for 2011. The classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also on the list. Do you "censor" what your kids read? If you found a book objectionable, would you go as far as I did and cross a part out and change it? Dominic has not been saying "shut up" to us as much as he was, but he is still saying it. He now says it and then goes, "Dominic, say, "be quiet!!" Basically repeating back to me, what I say to him. Hopefully the phrase, "shut up" is on it's way out the door!!
When Dominic was diagnosed with Autism at 2 1/2, I went to our local library and took out every book I could find about Autism. Sometimes I would bring back 20 books. This was 2006, so a lot of the information was very "dated." I guess I was looking for a book that would tell me what I should do next, like a "manual." Autism doesn't quite work that way! The saying is, " if you know one person with Autism, you know one person with Autism." Every mom to an individual with Autism follows their own "path." I think as moms, we judge ourselves much harder than anyone else does. I was 41 when I had Dominic. Did he get the diagnosis of Autism because I was an older mom? because I drank a lot of pop? I could sit and think about that every minute of every day. I am pretty integrated into the Autism community around Lansing and have told more than one person that it took me about two weeks to come to terms with Dominic's diagnosis. It is so incredib...
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