By the way, I have a son with HF autism too. Whenever I think of these labels I think of the movie Forrest Gump and how his mother refused to have him labeled.
Good for you, root! I feel the same way.
Part of the friction bewteen W and I is that I take umbrage when she insists on characterizing S6 as AS in practically the first sentence with anyone we meet. "Hi, this is our son, S6, and he has Asperger's." In turn she gets angry at me because part of my problem early on in his diagnosis is that I was in a bit of denial, so then she thinks I am continuing to be in denial about our son's condition. No, I truly accept S6's condition, just as I do the color of his eyes or the shape of his little nose. I treat his AS just as a parent is supposed to treat any "handicap" their child may have -- it is just a handicap and not a label. He is an otherwise normal little boy, very bright and very high-functioning, and we should expect no less from him just because he may have this handicap. He needs encouragement not excuses. Making excuses for him will only harm him by keeping him from being able to cope with the real world.
Originally Posted By: runningoutoftime
Is there anyway you can get out of that cell phone situation and have the bill sent to her?
I forgot to mention that I sort-of resolved that problem already. I confronted the W about the bill last week and without admitting any guilt or wrong-doing whatsoever she insisted on having the account put in her name alone. I let her. Frankly, I don't want to see the phone records anymore -- it's too painful counting up the hours she spent on the phone with OM (6,239 minutes in just two billing periods! That's double the time she spent talking to anyone else, including me, combined!) And now she has put him on the "family" plan, it sickens me (I guess she rationalizes that she's doing a financially responsible thing by now talking mobile-to-mobile with OM for just a flat fee.)
So all in all, it's now one less thing to worry about, so I can concentrate on GAL.
