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Anyone here have experience with non-verbal autism?

@DocteurRalph he's 3.

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Pretty sure I'm invisible.

Sherlock wrote:
Nah. With orange hair, you need a MAGA cap to go with it!

I would rather shave my head than wear one of those.

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Pretty sure I'm invisible.

I asked my husband if he wanted to cut bamboo or make waffles.

He's making waffles. :)

I asked my son if he wanted to make fruit salad, or not have fruit salad with dinner. He made fruit salad.

Options. People need to be given options.

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Pretty sure I'm invisible.

@Evansent thank you. Your words make me feel better.

https://www.publicdesire.com/blog/wp-content/up...

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Pretty sure I'm invisible.

Meh. I've been feeling grumpy and unappreciated all day, and I'm pretty sure I've constructed most of it in my own mind. It's hard to stay motivated when it seems that nothing you do matters. I bet if I went on strike they'd notice.

The other day I went outside to look at my grapevines while everyone else was home. My teenage son complained that I'd left the three year old "unsupervised" and I should have asked before going out into my own backyard. Am I the only adult in the house? Are other people's video games and crap more important than anything I do? If I don't cook, the big people eat junk and the little people starve. It never occurs to any of the big people to even offer the little ones something to eat. If I don't clean it up, the mess stays. If I don't wash the laundry, the teenagers just wear dirty clothes, the husband just buys himself more. I started a diet because my weight is stuck much higher than it's ever been while I'm not pregnant. In three months I've lost almost 2 lbs by eating 1100 calories a day. My husband has lost 25 lbs in the same amount of time eating Nutty Bars and Resee Cups all day long, because when he's at work he doesn't actually work but instead uses the treadmill that someone left in a storage locker at his office, then he comes home and just sits. I'd like to exercise, but I'm busy from morning until night being the only person in the house who does anything to keep this pigsty in some semblance of habitability. And if I don't do it, nobody cares - I've tried leaving things to see if someone else will take care of it - they don't! They are utterly oblivious.

Ok. Self pity rant done.

Who wants ice cream?

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Pretty sure I'm invisible.

Actually auburn, but after I commented about it, my daughter called it "orange and red". My natural color is light brown with a beautiful silver stripe. I used to dye my hair fairly often, but hadn't since the silver came in because I like it so much. (It makes me look like a chubby middle aged version of Rogue from the X-Men.)

The silver does look rather dramatically orange now. I'm not surprised the zombies, er, I mean males didn't notice, but I was sure my daughter would.

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I just discovered my wisdom teeth have come in.

One of mine recently came in too. Didn't hurt at all, but it did push another one a little crooked. I'm in my 40s.

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Anyone here have experience with non-verbal autism?

@BA1 There's a difference between can form words and can use words to communicate. Parrots and crows can "speak" but they don't talk, except as a trick that they are trained to perform. But your comment is exactly the source of my doubt - if he can talk, I should encourage him, but if he can't, trying to force him will only frustrate him and damage his trust in me.

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Anyone here have experience with non-verbal autism?

AAA wrote:
@smiley

Is this to say he has never spoken at all?

He says "no", "mom", and occasionally "tea". He used to say "dad", "banana", "apple", and "yes" but doesn't anymore. He reads letters of the alphabet out loud whenever he sees them.

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Anyone here have experience with non-verbal autism?

@BA1 sometimes you just can't tell. I might think my son can talk, if only he would try, but I might be wrong.

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