This has been one of those days no one wanted to do anything.
We did go down to East Town Mall this morning.
The place is just awful now.
I don’t think there are more than a handful of stores or restaurants hanging on.
It’s empty and neglected-looking.
Badger needed a wireless controller for her game.
With Gealach in her bedroom on the weekends now, she can’t sit on her floor to play—she doesn’t want to wake up G.
Her current controller won’t reach the top bunk, so wireless was the only way to go.
She has an outdated system, so finding games or controllers is nearly impossible.
We had to get one from what was essentially a game system pawn shop.
Hopefully, it works.
The sound isn’t a problem, if you’re wondering how she can play a noisy game all night and not wake up G.
Badger has never liked sound on her games.
She keeps it off.
We came home and everyone stayed in.
Gealach and Peacock were watching TV in his room.
Cowboy was watching TV in the living room.
Badger was in her room playing her game.
So I went in my room and watched TV.
Pretty much, that’s how it’s been all day—all evening.
I’m not complaining. I’m just bone tired and want to rest up.
I got my notice for jury duty right before we went to the campground.
I called and told them I can’t drive, so I asked if I could apply for a hardship discharge.
Apparently, not being able to drive isn’t a hardship.
They said they’ll just send the sheriff to pick me up and bring me home.
Ha!
I’ll be the talk of the town.
Wi-Fi was nonexistent and data was sketchy, so I finally sat down and read it fully today.
Badger has level 1 autism.
That’s not a surprise—he went over that in his office.
He actually thinks she has Asperger’s, but that diagnosis is no longer given out.
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association merged four distinct autism diagnoses into one umbrella diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They included autistic disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger syndrome.
All of her tests were consistent with autism.
This still gets me just so angry.
None of the psychiatrists we saw from the time Badger was two onward would even perform a single autism test.
She missed out on early intervention.
She missed out on counseling.
She missed out on the help she needed—because she was a girl.
And “girls can’t have autism.”
Her IQ is in the low average range, her visual-spatial skills were in the extremely low range.
What this means, I don't know & he didn't elaborate.
He feels that she's never had anxiety or selective mutism.
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That bit hits hard, I don't know why, but it does.
Maybe because I live with Badger, I don't see what a stranger would see about her.
I've never thought her any different from her brothers, but to a stranger, apparently, there is a difference.
But we have the report & now we can figure out what to do.
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