hey journal I forgot to tell you

[alicevangeline]

Meg's diagnostics/evaluations are 'complete' and they indicate Level 1 autism (that means mild), mild adhd inattentive type, adjustment disorder (mood depressed/anxious),  and speech problem with stutter & pragmatic language.  (I'm typing this from memory so I might have a word or two wrong.)  She's a smarty, too, like moderately gifted.

Ty has SIMILAR, but has level 3 autism,  adhd combined, generalized anxiety, and ridiculously smart/profoundly gifted. nobody says that, though. And Ty is superduper friendly and verbal and expressive, but his executive function skills are like nemo's lucky fin.  He can make them stronger but he has to work harder to like pack his backpack and do what other people are doing.

Both kids have like 20 page reports I went over  on zoom. so i'm not talking about working memory or executive function or social cognition right now.  

So, this is not a super huge deal that she's 'official,' but it did make my self-care saturday kind of important to do (cuz i had the evaluation meeting on Friday afternoon).

Nothing has really changed - she's the same kid. Having official labels might help open some doors and make people be more patient, that's how i see it.    The other thing is that it's really interesting that both kids have different brain wiring from the neurotypical population, but to different degrees.

 

Anyway this is part of why they're not in summer camp this year. I had zero more mental energy to organize that after all their evaluations and doctors appointments and forms and whatnot.  I'm maybe being self-indulgent by saying 'i can't,' maybe i could, maybe it's not that big a deal, but frankly i didn't get to it and didn't really care enough to force myself to do so.    So i guess that means 'i can't'