"SHUT UP!!!" Can you here that from wherever you are? It's that loud when he screams it!
I tell him, "Saying Shut Up shows a lack of intelligence. It's like...I can't think of anything else to say so I'm going to just tell you to shut up! Come on! Get creative!" And so they do just that.
"You're not smarter than me Blue. In fact, you're just dumb."
"And YOU'RE immature!"
"No....You're immature."
"You're so immature...you're like a pre-schooler."
"You're so immature it's like your a baby...coming right out of your mother's stomach!"
"Well...you're ugly!"
"And you need a haircut! Come here so I can give you a haircut!"
"Eat my shorts!"...ooh good one!
"You're not Bart Simpson. You're not even funny."
"You need to shave your butt hair!" At this point I'm dying laughing.
I'm sorry...but I just love the creativity coming from these insults. This from two boys who hardly laugh at anything. You see crude humor is a part of our family heritage...it starts with my dad who is truly offensive. I mean that man can get more MF's into one conversation than anyone that I know. I am actually offended when he's uses the language when talking to me. I'm like...hello! You're talking to a lady here...your daughter nonetheless. Yet, I find myself saying some pretty incredulous things at times. There's something about the shock value. It doesn't always make other people laugh. My husband HATES when I do this. He says, "O.K. that's enough Hollywood!" (That's my dad's nickname...don't ask why.) I really crack myself up.
I hear that my brother does the same thing to his wife. "He makes these stupid jokes and he's the only one who thinks they're funny," says his wife.
I joke around with my kids all the time. They hate it! They can be so heavy and so serious. Sometimes I just want to lighten the mood. The other day we are coming out of the Y after exercising. It's dark...there aren't many people around. I have my IPOD still in my ears and I'm dancing my way to the car. Red starts yelling, "Mom! STOP! Why are you being so silly? These people are going to think you're crazy!"
"First of all, I don't see many people out here. Second of all...I don't care what they think," and I go right back to my dancing.
"You don't even know how to dance. You're not dancing right!" says the boy who doesn't dance at ALL...unless he's rocking out in his room to Linkin Park.
So to stop the shenanigans last night...I finally say, "I'm going to record you two and put you on Facebook and my blog."
"NOOO!" they shout in unison. And that was the end of that!
At least they never got around to, "You're mother's so fat..." Now THAT would not be funny!
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Adelaide Dupont · 285 weeks ago
And for those of us who knew and appreciated these points in high school to a greater or lesser extent - always good to have a refresher and feel them through the current and future generations who we survived to be able to see.
I especially appreciated points 5, 7 and 10.
And young women not settling or settling down yet is a good thing.
"It's never too late to live our dreams" - but it may be too early for some of them!
And 8 of course.
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Maira L. Coral · 216 weeks ago
I was looking for information for my Multi-Genre Disability Research Project from my Early Childhood Special Education class on the web, when suddenly I came across your blog. I started reading this out of curiosity and I want to tell you that as you said yourself, you will not be Amanda Gorman, but you managed to make me shed some tears, perhaps because I felt totally identified with your words, especially in the part that you speak of your son. My son also has Asperger's syndrome, he is 19 years old and he is in the second semester of College. Also like yours, he takes classes from home, likewise my eldest daughter is also taking college classes from her room. At the same time, that I work as a preschool teacher from my kitchen through a computer, my husband sleeps in the room during the day because he works at night. Also in the afternoons I myself take virtual school classes. I am a 51-year-old Latin woman who began to learn the English language as adult, so maybe you find some deficiencies in my writing, however, I was very moved by how proud you express yourself about your son. Referent your mother, I liked the humorous tone that you give when your talk about her, so I did not want to miss this opportunity and stopped my assignments for a moment to let you know that your words do make a difference, since they reach the heart of at least those who have opportunity to read you. I want confess you that is the most long I have written to someone I don't know, because your words inspired me, thank you...
Gavin Bollard · 209 weeks ago
Thanks for this post. I've been very distracted of late and so this was how I found out about our friend Kate. Kate's struggles were very real but they were so constant and so wide-ranging that it was difficult for people around her to address them. I think it's going to take a while longer for me to process all this.
I learned so much from Kate because she was always quick to point out the many injustices in the world. In her glory days, she was very much a crusader and she cared for everyone. Over the years, as her situation took its toll, I came to realise that it was the fact that she couldn't be put in a single specific category, that made the system fail her. She needed help that they weren't set up to provide.
She needed more care and she needed to be less alone. I'm so sorry that this has happened.
For a long while we were corresponding almost every day but a couple of months ago, I realised that she had become so stressed that nearly every interaction I had with her was starting to trigger her. I backed away to give her a bit more space. She only had a little time that she could stand to be online and there were too many things that she wanted to do in that time. I thought that by taking a step back, she could reach out to more people who might be geographically closer and able to assist.
Kate was a beautiful soul and she will be sorely missed by all of us.
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Spoil your cat · 121 weeks ago
Many of these living arrangement aren't good, and many of the people who run those places really don't have the residents' best interest at heart. Those places are like old age homes and foster homes, where you sometimes hear horror stories. They're hard to trust. But then there are good ones, of course.
The best thing for an autistic adult is either to go on living at home or working and renting an apartment and living independently, but that isn't always an option.
Duncan · 112 weeks ago