You know you have a difficult child if.....

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HaoZi

Guest
When even the doctor's office doesn't know or understand why the doctor has not given you a referral to a neuropsychologist yet. And they're already tired of hearing from you because your kid reacts so oddly to so many medications that when you see the downhill slide start they think you're just being hysterical or something.
 

hexemaus2

Old hand
difficult child 2's input on the whole thing...

...if you (as the parent) have ever been seen in the ER and heard comments like "Ms. J, I've never seen a pillow do that before." (most parents don't need an ER trip after a pillow fight.) or "Ms. J, I would normally see your boys for this type of injury."

...you have held Door Usage 101 Training for your difficult children. Course requirements: Stand at a door, with hands on doorknob, while Mom (or Dad) repeats "Open." "Now close." "Open." "Close" for 15 minutes.
 
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JJJ

Active Member
...you have to actually state rules that are usually implied...
................no cooking in the toilet
................no peeing on the tree in front of the house, no matter what you did when camping
................no matter how hot you are, taking everything out of the freezer and putting in your bed with you will not keep you cool all night
................clothes stay on the entire time when on a walk around the neighboorhood
 
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HaoZi

Guest
You watch reruns of shows like "Married...with Children" and think they were actually a functional family.
 

susiestar

Roll With It
You think the child who colored the cat's belly green with a marker is a easy child. After all, the cat liked it.

You take the same sex child into the bathroom with you if you are the only adult at home. Otherwise you are dispensing bandaids and ice packs for injuries sustained in the 45 seconds you have trained your bladder to empty in - that time includes pulling up your pants and washing your hands!!

The school resource officer calls you to see if you know where a child can be sent when he refuses to behave at home. After all you are on first name basis with 3 boy's homes in your state because at one time your difficult child needed them.

Your difficult child was turned down for all three of the boy's homes in your state because he was too violent and/or too disabled.

The director of one of the boy's homes is friends with your child's elem school counselor and they call YOU for help and ideas to handle children who are out of control.

You can give them ideas that help.

Teachers are all completely shocked when your child parrots back EXACTLY what they told him when he gets in trouble for doing exactly what they said - literally when they were speaking figuratively.

Teachers are super shocked because at the time they said what they did, your difficult child was spinning around on his back on the floor, holding a soccer ball.

You get tears in your eyes when your difficult child walks past and gives you a hug for no reason - because he hates to be touched and hasn't given you a hug in over a year unless you begged for one or a grandparent pressured him.

You are told by a therapist that your child needs to be the only child in a household - and you are pregnant with his second sibling. The therapist suggest you and your husband buy or rent two homes next door to each other so that you can try to stay married.

sven - I LOVE your phone message.

3S - I am so sorry that you are so cruelly blamed. It is not, was not, and never will be your fault in any way. Regardless of what anyone says.
 

trinityroyal

Well-Known Member
You keep an extra set of baby car seats in the house, to lock and load them if you have to step out of the room for a minute, because the taller twin will escape from his playpen and he will bust his shorter twin sister out of hers.
You have a large rubbermaid bin filled with stress balls, colour coded by owner so that everyone knows which ones are theirs.
You do every load of laundry with double fabric softener AND a dryer sheet, so there are no funny textures
The one non-aspie member of the household knows how to interpret each tic, flap and squeak from each aspie (even if the same tic means a different thing from each person)
 

Mom2oddson

Active Member
When you automatically think in loop-holes....don't turn on the TV. Don't have anyone else turn on the TV. Don't do anything that will cause the TV to come on. Don't have the neighbor come and turn the TV on, don't have the neighbor bring over his TV. Don't have the neighbor put his TV in his window so that you can see it......

When you can listen to a 60 minute rant because you told someone to go to bed and you calmly repeat the same two sentences over and over..."good-night" and "what part of good-nite don't you understand". And no matter how shocking the threat or how hard your buttons are pushed, it doesn't faze you. And when the child finally gives up and goes to bed, you continue what you were doing like nothing happened.
 

AnnieO

Shooting from the Hip
Wow... This is my life...

...When your blood pressure goes WAY up at the first raising of a voice... But you've trained yourself to sit perfectly still so as to not sustain injury.

...When the aforementioned voice rises, you begin looking for escape routes.

...When you are missing a necessary tool or utensil (kitchen scissors, screwdriver, hammer, ladle), you automatically check your difficult child's room - first.

...When your difficult child hands you yet another detention slip, you just sign it. That means someone else will have control of them for an extra half hour!

...When you actually get alone time with your SO or friends, the topic always turns to your difficult child.

...When you actually know Children's Services-approved restraining holds.

...When you buy an extra refrigerator for your bedroom for the food that vanishes, like cheese, pepperoni, and bacon. Corollary: when you have a cabinet/shelves set aside in your bedroom for non-perishable food that vanishes (like crackers and the multigrain cereal that NO KID ON THE PLANET likes but your difficult child will eat before their Cookie Crisp).

...When you have to tell your difficult child to "stay out of the potatoes"... Because you bought a 10-lb bag 2 days ago and there are 3 spuds left.

...When you are not even remotely surprised when your difficult child fails a drug test.

...When you can tell when anyone is lying - even if they're really, really good at it.

...When you check your cell phone and cable bills every other day for unauthorized charges. Credit card accounts, too.
 

DaisyFace

Love me...Love me not
You know you have a difficult child when....

Your entire schedule is made up of "important meetings" - meetings with the therapist, psychiatrist, pediatrician doctor, teacher, principal, sped director, bus driver, etc....and that's just one week.

You walk around with a giant ring of keys all the time - even though you are not a janitor.

A "good day" is any day the cops did not show up at your house.

You fantasize about being "normal".
 

wethreepeeps

New Member
you check difficult child out of school for an eye doctor appointment, and run into someone you know at McDonalds afterwards, around lunchtime. They greet you with, "oh no, is difficult child suspended again?"

You can identify such distinct sounds as "that's a tennis shoe hitting the wall" or "that's a plastic easter egg full of legos rolling down the stairs" and the ever-popular "that's a belt being used as a bullwhip".

difficult child complains that the door hinges squeak and you refuse to oil them, because it lets you know when the bathroom door is opened in the middle of the night.

difficult child throws up and your first thought isn't "oh no, difficult child is sick!" it's "hmmm, did difficult child sneak and gorge on something?"

Something, anything, that difficult child owns breaks, and it never occurs to you that it just broke from normal usage.
 
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zba189

Guest
You trade uniform washing tips with the rest of your difficult child's karate class Moms and the questions are "how much fabric softener did you use" or "how many layers does your difficult child have under his uniform".
You find yourself saying things like, "No, Uncle Jake not being around for Christmas does not mean that we have to go to funeral on Christmas day. It just means he's not coming into town this year".
You find that you can be more tolerate, more forgiving, and a lot better person than you ever dreamed you could be.
 

TiredSoul

Warrior Mom since 2007
I absolutely LOVE this thread! Thanks to all of you. It's just what I needed. In fact I am thinking of having my extended family read it so they "get it".
 

hexemaus2

Old hand
...when your difficult children read this thread and then argue about which of them most resembles which sign.
...when your pcs read this thread and after picking herself up off the floor and wiping away the laugh tears, asks if we have a sister site for siblings of difficult children (and quietly mutters something about not having another child because of the staggaring odds that her second child will be a difficult child too.)
...when your post-gfgness SO reads this thread and says "OMG, does this stuff REALLY happen to people?" and your shocked he thinks its so unusual.
 
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