We had some really good news this past week at our daughter's school. When L's OT showed up there to do her therapy, massages and joint compressions, a substitute teacher (who has been there about 2 weeks) remarked to the OT, "Well, what exactly is the reason you see L?" To which the OT replied, "She has an autism spectrum disorder, PDD-NOS." The sub was really surprised and said, "But she's the smartest and best behaved kiddo here!"
Those kind of moments help balance out the not-so-great times pretty nicely. I had a warm fuzzy feeling for the rest of the day. I am absolutely amazed at how much it has helped just working around her sensory issues and doing some things to help keep her calm. The joint compressions, deep pressure massage, weighted blankets, heavy work and even epsom salt baths (they actually do work, I was surprised). Above all, keep that schedule.
She has her moments though. Like when she chunked the tester's toy at her head because she didn't want to participate. Or kicked her friend in the shin as way of a greeting (hello-WHACK!!) And I won't even discuss the indignities our poor cat, Luna-Tuna, suffers on a daily basis.
She's made enough progress lately that we are debating letting her play little league tee-ball this summer on the young team. Still not for sure on that one though. It's a little scary, just in case she gets mad and decides to bean someone unexpectedly. Which is definitely a possibility...
Yeah, maybe give her one more year before tee ball. Little League's overrated anyways.....
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