--So exhausted - these past two weeks have been pretty much the worst I've ever put up with. Screaming, head-butting, punching, kicking, scratching, slapping... most of which was the result of me not doing anything, just Jake's switch flipping and turning on me.
--But at least now we have some idea of how he'll be in a nursery setting - absolutely awful. Now comes the assessment findings report next week followed by a referral to Midland Psychology Services and the Behavioural Intervention Team. Plus the dietician and educational psychologists, Early Years Forum and fighting to get Jake into the right schooling which, at this stage, looks like a special school.
--Why do these things take so long to arrange? And why has the government decided that people with special needs don't need funding yet people who can't be bothered to find a job need all the help they can get? Why is it for a special chair for my son to go out in I have to find £400 if wheelchair services can't accommodate me - yet if I wander into a jobcentre drunk and stoned they'll throw money at me and tell me what funding I can get to have a free house, free furniture and a free ride for the rest of my days if I can't be bothered to work? The system sucks.
--They should make all those social security spongers work for free in special schools and assessment centres for ASD kids, get the crap beaten out of them daily for no reason other than perhaps the colour of the walls isn't right or the shoes feel funny or the air conditioning is too cold and then they can see why we need funding and they don't. Then they can stop sponging and taking all the money and let kids who otherwise would be completely marginalised get the help they need - kids who, unlike you lazy lot, actually want and deserve a future. And who are willing to do what it takes to make that happen.
--Dad, the reason my sister had a go at you is because you won't listen to me, and saying, "I'm not criticising you as a parent or anything but..." is criticism whether you want to admit it or not. My son is not the way he is through anything I have or have not done - he's wired differently, is all. Telling me I'm not "hitting him hard enough" just shows what an idiot you can be. Yeah, ok, I'll beat the kid until he is senseless, shall I? Wow - great advice. Now if only everyone who works with kids like him followed that reasoning, we'd be back in medieval times, casting out "demons" that aren't there.
