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| Life With Paul - Living with FASD |
| This is a journal of sorts, as I record our life with Paul. Paul is my wife's little brother, who has FASD. After some soul searching we took him out of foster care, which was a huge commitment for a family as young as we are. |
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| Paul Get Locked Down |
| 2008-11-30 04:06:38 |
After restricting Paul’s video game time, he stopped being able to get out of bed in the morning. He also became obsessed with my work schedule. It took some time for us to put these two things together but after a while we began to speculate that Paul was sneaking into the basement at night [...]...
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| Paul Checks Out |
| 2008-11-29 12:42:55 |
After telling Paul about FASD his behaviour became worse. It started slowly; he would try less and less until the reason finally became clear to us. He was using FASD as an excuse not to try things that he shouldn’t be good at. Where he used to try to control his meltdowns he actually started [...]...
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| Summer with Paul |
| 2008-07-09 21:05:40 |
It’s been a while since my last post, with Paul’s baseball season and my work I have been swamped. Now that summer break is upon us Paul is at home with the daycare kids. It is interesting to watch the way he interacts with them. There is a 5 year old in care that has [...]...
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| Paul Loses His Weekend |
| 2008-06-08 22:08:18 |
This weekend was a wash for Paul. He left a big Social Studies project to the last minute, despite us bugging him to bring it home and start working. On Tuesday we finally resorted to the old “If you don’t bring it, we’ll go get it” which usually works. The thought of one of us [...]...
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| Paul Gets Caught |
| 2008-06-07 06:56:39 |
Sorry, it’s been awhile since my last post. In addition to the joys of shift work there, is allot on my plate right now and this kind of fell to the side.
This week Paul and his friends got caught throwing things in front of cars during lunch at school. Paul’s acceptance of [...]...
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| Paul’s bad day gets longer… |
| 2008-05-22 04:13:08 |
Anyone dealing alcohol affected children knows that they have good days and bad days. Lately it seems that Paul has been having nothing but bad days. Monday night he had a meltdown because it was time for his shower and he wanted to watch TV. I was giving the baby his bedtime [...]...
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| Paul and the Staggered Development |
| 2008-05-15 22:26:25 |
We attended a workshop for people dealing with adolescents with FASD last night. During the workshop the presenter kept mentioning how parts of these children are lagging behind. Paul’s ability to function when he is tired, hungry or stressed is functioning at about a 2-4 year olds level. He will become sullen [...]...
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| Baseball Season |
| 2008-05-06 21:52:22 |
Every year we put Paul in baseball. He seemed to enjoy it, but two years ago we got a bad coach. One of the super competitive ones, that didn’t seem to realize that most of the team had never played before. At the end of the season when they lost the city finals he cancelled [...]...
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| The House Hippo |
| 2008-05-04 12:36:07 |
Paul was watching TV today and saw the house hippo commercial. He ate it right up and before the commercial got to the part where it tell people that they need to think about what they see on TV, he said “I didn’t know there were house hippos”. This was a nice validation [...]...
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| The Laundry |
| 2008-04-24 22:03:53 |
Right now we are trying to come up with a system to help Paul with his clothes. His laundry hamper is always full a couple of days after he does laundry. We make sure that all his clothes are put away on laundry day but somehow they always end up back in his hamper. By [...]...
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