Crutches again

Jan i hope you don't mind me quoting your comment from yesterday here..."Ilove these text books they are the ones the experts work from arent they ? lol" ...See you hit the nail on the head there and that's the scary thing...I think it is not good practise to use only one textbook when it comes to issues like autism and other child developmental disorders...These students are people who could be going on to become clinical, educational or some other specific type of psychologist...If they go by the book then it will be detrimental to a lot of children and their families...Oh i forgot to say yesterday that one of the questions asked in this textbook is 'What causes autism'...They're asking this of students!!!!...If the author of this book knows what causes autism then why haven't all the vast amount of families on the planet affected, the professionals, teachers, etc etc etc been told!!!!...No-one knows for sure what causes it...There are lots of different theories from genetic causes, enviromental causes, or it just happening...I'd also really like to know where exactly the person who wrote this book took their statistics from...As one of the things in it is '75% of autistics don't go on to develop language'...How old and how long a period were they studied for i'd like to know...Reason being i know some who didn't start having language until they were older...G was non verbal until he was 5, a friends son was non verbal until he was 12...One famous autistic was non verbal until he was in his 20s...In my own personal experience it's a lot lot less than 75% that remain non verbal...Okies am ranting again sorry LOL...I can't help it and i probs shouldn't apologise...One of my cousins has just texted me to ask me to email her everything about G from he was little right through primary school...EEKS...I'll have to find the emails i posted myself from my private blog that i had to delete...She's studying to become a classroom assitant just now and they have been covering autism/aspergers in particular so she wants to use us a case study...I don't mind but it's just getting my head round trying to remember everything as i didn't write it down at the time...It's all in my head...She can't use M as he went to SEN school and it's for mainstream...Well at least i think it is specifically mainstream i'll phone her later and ask

        

K im'd me on MSN later last night...She always catches me when am in pub quiz room grrrr...She was at her b/f's and i asked why as he has exams this week so she was banned LOL...She'd just got back from A&E again :o( ...She'd fallen and hurt her right ankle this time...So she's back on crutches again...She's not sure how she fell and if it was just something normal like we can all have or if she had a turn...Forgot to ask her if she was going to phone and let the neurologist know...Hunny if you read this before i speak to you then please tell him if you haven't already...It could get you a quicker appointment...Still no word back from loan people and i was told i would get the bank statement, and benefit award letters back quickly once they had got them...Or maybe they are going to send them back with everything else...If i ain't heard anything by middle of next week i'll phone the bloke dealing with it.

        

My niece had her graduation from uni today :o) ...Told mum last night don't any of you come near here as the flat is in uproar and there's nowhere to get a seat LOL...Well there's enuff for me and the boys just but not for anyone else as stuff everywhere whilst i get the decorating finished...Hoping it's all done by end of sunday...M was happy enuff to go to school today :o) ...I was dreading this morning as he wasn't getting to go on the morning out to local amusement park...None of the pupils who're at college or him and the other lad who are at the mainstream classes at mainstream high school were getting to skive off...But he did accept that fine after he was spoken to again last fri...He decided that the crowd would be too much for him LOL...He's not even come home in a bad mood either which is fine for me...As the dep head for senior dept said to them it's all part of growing up and you can't always get to things you'd like to go to...Another couple of christmas game links...Am rubbish at both of these ones LOL

Funschool - Fun Blaster - Evil Elves

Funschool - Christmas - Evil Elves 2

Toodle pip tc

wee rant and babies

                 

Was talking on MSN to K last night...She thinks as part of her psychology or sociology course that they cover autism...Well she was reading one of the textbooks and it was mentioned quite heavily...And being K she was sat there arguing with the textbook LOLOLOL...She said she thinks they have to do it next year...Now i dunno if she meant next year as in 2007 before the summer hols or next uni year...Hmmm have to ask her...Her lecturer is going to love her NOT once they hit that topic that's for sure...I can just see the lecturer saying to her that what is in the book is correct and that she can't possibly argue with it and that she would know nothing about it ROFL...Hmmmm as K told me some of the tosh that's written in this textbook then that lecturer is going to be so wrong...According to this textbook (which she thinks the uni has a deal with the publishers) aspergers is not a form of autism...Okies some people do think that but majority don't...Everyone with aspergers has an obsessive interest in something and they all have a special ability at something...RUBBISH...."happy endings to autism stories are rare" is in this textbook...How pessimistic is that crap...The list goes on and on...I'd love to know is aberdeen uni uses the same textbook...One of the lads who was at the base with G is now doing psychology there...Now that would be funny in a twisted evil way to see a lecturers face when someone with the condition starts telling them the textbook they're using is a pile of crap...In one of the case studies in this textbook they've said that "the mothers early intervention and constant attention to her son, as well as her deliberate intention to expose him to as much language as possible, probably helped keep the disorder at bay" Well hey welcome to the real world...Of course early intervention and as much input from parents, other family members & friends, schools, therapies, respite etc etc ect are going to IMPROVE their lives...Like erm DUH!!!! Oh i forgot sociology isn't supposed to be about common sense...Obviously i haven't read this textbook YET...I will be at christmas time as K is giving me it to look at...But seriously does the person who has written this not expect parents to look for, fight for, and get the best help/intervention that they can for their child!!!! Think am gonna end up arguing with this book too LOL...Ohhh i better stop before i rant on and on and on and on...It was published in 2004 but an earlier version was published in 2000...It's still from what K has told me way out of date but i shall give my verdict after i have read it <ggg>

                   

Well apart from the above it's been uneventful...Am going to a free christmas lunch on mon for carers...It's the local rotary club that have arranged it :o) I wasn't going to say i would go but i got told last nite there will be some people i know there so i said count me in then...Have no idea where to go yet like and i did think cool i won't drive so i can have a wee drink...But am driving that evening so can't <sigh>  The boys are liking the art stuff they are doing at the wed club until christmas which is good...The next clear night that we are free and best friends partner is free we're going round with the telescope to get it set up properly LOL...Not heard anything back from the loan company since i sent back all the signed paperwork...My cooling off period has passed though so am presuming everything is okies...They'd have contacted me if it wasn't i'd have thought...Ohhhh just had an IM from an old old friend on here...He's just become a daddy for the first time to a wee baby boy :o) I feel all cuddly looking at the pics but NOT broody LOL...Big congrats to him and his wife :o)

Toodle pip tc xx

bathrooms

                    

Remember my flood back in june???? Well my bathroom still hasn't been fixed LOL...The builders have arranged to come round 3 times so far and never turned up...My loss adjustor has been on at them twice and i got a call 2 days ago to say they can come on the 19th dec...BUT if they can't finish it all that day then they won't be able to come back until after the 8th of january when they are back after christmas...Hmmm what do i do???? Will i tell them come on the 19th or tell them to wait until january...TO be honest if they can't finish it all in one day i'd rather have 2 days on the trot arranged in advance rather than have some half finished effort waiting for a few weeks...I mean i've been waiting all this time anyways so is another 4 weeks gonna bother me??? Plus i went looking at bathroom suites last nite in B&Q...Now i don't want it all matching...Does that sound daft, probably <ggg> Thing is with all those that i have seen, the bath is fine, the loo is fine and the sink is MINGING...As you know younger sis has just had a house built and what they did for their bathroom and shower room is bought seperates...Sis told me the bathroom place they used and told me to go have a look...She has an account with them and can around 30% discount...I just want as long a bath, that isn't massively wide, as possible and a plain cheap loo...I had seen a sink i liked in argos but they don't sell it anymore <sob> B&Q had plain white bath with taps at one end for £139 that was plastic...They also had another that was plain white with taps at one end but steel for £149...Dunno about anyone else but an extra tenner for steel that's gonna last longer to me is better option...Especially as am considering putting a shower in at the taps end...And taking into consideration 2 young men who are over 6 feet tall now LOL...So i could get new suite put in then have the builders come and do what they need to...I really doubt they can replace the roof, strip ALL the walls and redo them in ONE day...The walls are varnished wood as is the roof...Give me your thoughts please am going to phone them back tomorrow.

G finally got his flu jab today HURRAH!!!...Had to go out collect him, then drive back into town to surgery, then back out to the centre where he goes rock walling every 2nd wed...He was amazed that the whole 2 round trips added up to around 28-30 miles...Told him i'd just driven equivalent of half way to grannys LOL...It's a real nuisance when he has an appointment during school time...But it was the LAST available appointment for the LAST clinic they currently have enuff vaccine to adminster...Don't know about anyone else but i find it shocking that all over the UK there has not been enuff flu vaccine available...They've stockpiled heaps of the bird flu one and it's not nearly as important at this time to have available to peeps...Wed club soon and now they are at a local art & craft centre learning arty stuff...Last week i recognised one of the workers but haven't a clue what her name is...She was at art school same time as me but not someone i kept in touch with...Wonder if she recognised me ROFL...It was 20 years ago so i can be forgiven for not remembering her name can't i???  Think i'll go have some weetabix with sugar sprinkled over and then hot milk poured over before we go out...Hadn't had that for years until 3 weeks ago and taken a real craving for it again

Toodle pip tc xx

 

Thanks

Thank you for all the lovely comments left yesterday...I am so proud of him and it can't be easy standing up in front of a whole hall full of people to sing when you're autistic...Then again it can be surprising how sometimes they can cope with things like that no problem yet can't be in a crowd in other situations like shopping...To robruss last year at their christmas show he was the star then also...That time he sang Robbie Williams 'Advertising Space'...At the moment he has gained 2 sections of his SQA Access 2 in music and this year his music teacher has him working on the 3rd part so that then he has the whole cluster...I did ask if at some point they thought it would be possible for him to do the actual SQA Standard Grade but they don't wish to overload him for now...He's lucky as he's had same music teacher at both of his SEN schools...The good thing about his current SEN school is the highly encourage ALL of the children to do what they are best at for things like assembly and shows...It gives them more confidence that can then rub off into other areas :o) Yesterday i wasn't able to record him but i do still have recording from last year...It's just too big to put on my blog and takes forever and a day to upload to email LOL.

Found a good site for generating your own christmas fonts online yesterday...Some of the letters don't work on some of the fonts but i used them to make banners like the snowmen up there LOL ^^^^^ It's still chilly here and windy but it still doesn't feel like december at all...More like a chilly autumnal day...Oh we got the binoculars whilst up at mums on sunday but i can't get them to focus properly DUH!!!...So i went and actually set up M's telescope...Well i thought i did but i must have gone wrong somewhere as i can see naff all through it ROFL...Going to ask my best friends useless fella to sort it for me...Well he does have his uses at some things <ggg> He's into astronomy and has a very expensive telescope so am sure he can set M's small cheapy one up properly...IF i have the money then i may get one for my young nephew but am not sure at 8 he'd like a joint christmas and birthday pressie...He'll be 9 near beginning of january...Will ask sis once i know money situation and i could get him a small cheapy astronomy book to give him on hsi actual birthday

Got to take boys to club soon...Last week's was cancelled so i almost forgot i have to pay double tonite...Next tues they are going to a restaurant down the beach for a meal for christmas which they have to contribute part of the price...Hence paying double tonite...I do like this club it is much more grown up and teenager orientated than the sat fun club they used to go to :o) ...G finally is getting his flu jab tomorrow WOOHOO...Only thing is he will miss last period of school and then wants to be back out there to do his rock walling...Well he's going to have to take a bus out as i need to be here for M getting home...That's why he gets the bus home from it...I can't be in 2 places at once and M gets home half way through the time he is rock walling...It's also 6 miles away at a time when rush hour starts...Rush hour here starts around 3.30-4pm....So what would take like 10 mins to travel can take an hour or more grrrr...My necks a bit better so tomorrow am defo (how many times have i said this LOL) do another wall of wallpapering...And i'll put my window lights up and see if i can get into the festive spirit...Rob asked me to link this Santa game that is on the PRTC website...I missed 2 pressies being delivered LOL...Am real saddo i like nice simple, kiddie games me

santa

Toodle pip tc xx

weepy mum

Ohhh am all weepy this morning...Not long back from a special assembly at M's school...The head teacher who had been seconded to the council for last 2 years isn't coming back as she has a new permanent position within the council...M was accompanying the music teacher on the drums and one of his classmates was on base guitar...First there was a song for whole audience to sing along to, then 4 of the highland dancers did a dance for us...Then they had someone read out a poem one of the nursery nurses had written about the teacher and it was hilarious :o) ...Then one of the classes did a song together...Presentation came next then it was M's turn...He was singing a solo of You Raise Me Up...Well i was all teary eyed and sat down so he couldn't see me as i didn't want to put him off...He got the biggest cheer and handclap :o) Had lots of people come up to me after praising him and saying i must be fed up hearing him practise it LOL...I only heard it for the FIRST time this morning...He hasn't practised it at home at all...Even one of the special guests who is owner of a local, expensive, posh jewellery shop thought he was wonderful...I've no idea if his voice has broken yet to be honest...Music teacher thinks it may have and he's been lucky and still been left with a decent register to his voice...Anyways my lad was brill and am so so so proud of him...He loves music and is pretty darn good at it but am having a time of it trying to tell him that no way is he ever gonna try out for X Factor LOL...Gonna go have a coffee now and tidy up...It's very very windy and a bit chilly today so am going no-where now

Toodle pip for now tc xx 

a bit of fun

Hope these 2 links work...Just a wee bit of christmas fun :o)

Santa Snowboard - ebaumsworld.com

Christmas Elf Name

My name is Nipper Tum Tums LOLOLOL

          

I did get a wee bit into the christmas spirit last night and put up the lights and decorations on the stairwell...I still don't feel particularly festive but maybe nearer the time...We didn't use to put up our tree until a couple of days before christmas...Well when we had a huge massive real one that my dad got from the masonic lodge after they didn't need it anymore...A 10 foot high real tree looked wonderful in the big bay window in the lounge...I reckon it's the weather that's not festive...Okies it is cold but it's not particularly december type weather...Anyways enjoy the snowboarding santa and finding out what your elf name is LOL

Toodle pip tc xx

Ugh week

Well as it's 1st dec suppose i better start being christmassy on here LOL...Can you tell am just so not in the mood for christmas this year...I did get a bit all excited in asda when i saw they had lights that were tubes with bubbles in them...Not like those on the pic above but just long, hanging down sticks...Thought to meself cool i'll buy them BUT they are just sticks with bubbles in them...The bubbles don't actually bubble so that isn't what i want...I was going to buy the blue led ones for K but they only had left on the green wiring and i wanted white...They're not for a tree or even just for christmas but to put on her bed or above it on the wall...I actually have too many lights as it is...I only live in a flat so it's not like i can hang any up outside...I do put strings of lights up in the 3 windows that face the street...I also have a set that i hang up in the stairwell above the door of my cupboard on the stairs as i call it...It would have been the loo before all the flats were converted to having bathrooms in them donkeys years ago

It's been a pretty naff week...Monday wasn't the best of days and i don't really want to speak about it...I have to go up north on sunday for a meeting about mum...Older sis is cracking up with looking after her and is fed up of being the *bad* *interfering* one as mum puts it...I don't think that mum has beginnings of dementia but she's certainly not herself...Me and older sis think she is deliberatly forgetting things she'd just rather not have to think about or acknowledge...I certainly had a bad time with her on mon and sis gets it day in day out...Useless waste of space brother BETTER turn up on sun...And that is all am saying...Woke up on monday with a rotten stinking head cold that has steadily got worse over the week...To point where my neck is now giving my plenty gip and am not sleeping too good cos of it...But hey ho as longs the boys don't get it...Finally got G an appointment to get his flu jab...I just got the last one for the only clinic they have enough vaccine for...Means he'll miss last period of maths next wed but he can catch that up no problem....I've chucked a link to my myspace thingy on the right...It's rubbish and i am still clueless on the thing...One of the local radio DJ's is now one of *my friends* LOLOL...But he's a DJ on the northsound2 station and it's northsound1 i listen to...Been told have to switch my allegience.

Still haven't made my christmas cards...Was going to this week but head cold and neck put paid to that...I will defo start making them on monday and then start posting them out...Actually if neck is a bit better tomorrow then i'll might make the ones i can just pop through letterboxes on sunday and save on postage...Also have to get something to post to the states from the kids to their father...Hmmm every year doesn't matter what i buy it costs twice as much in postage as it costs to buy...If anyone wants a card then email me addy and i'll send one...But please only people who leave a comment that i know do that...Have to make some turkish delight to and send it off in batches...It doesn't keep for too long so anyone i send to is better eating within a short time of getting it...Right going to watch last of homes under the hammer (sad cow i am), have a quickie bath and go pay some bills...Oh the excitment LOL...And a huge thanks to jan (serendipity) who got me the siggy tag :o)

Toodle pip tc xx